Across
- 1. 1991 event where hardliners tried to reverse reforms (5 letters).
- 3. Term for the USSR’s fragmentation in 1991 (11 letters).
- 4. Republic Yeltsin led before the USSR’s collapse (7 letters: RSFSR).
- 5. Post-Stalin leader who initiated de-Stalinization (10 letters).
- 7. Brezhnev’s era marked by corruption and stagnation (3-3 letters).
Down
- 2. Gorbachev’s policy of economic "restructuring" (10 letters).
- 3. Gorbachev’s goal to reduce Cold War tensions (11 letters: Disarmament).
- 6. Policy of "openness" allowing criticism of the regime (8 letters).
