Across
- 2. Entrepreneurs under the NEP. Despised by Trotsky
- 5. Normally non-violent purging or 'cleansing' of the Party
- 9. The Civil Service and administrating body of government
- 11. White Civil War general. Captive of the Japanese in 1904/5
- 13. Lenin. Huge surge in party membership started in 1922. 500,000 new members
- 15. Stalin's thuggish drinking partner. Loyal but stupid friend.
- 17. Leader of the Party in Moscow
- 18. Trotsky was exiled here in 1927
- 19. 'Golden Boy'. Editor of Pravda.
Down
- 1. Opposition. Kamenev, Zinoviev and Trotsky's triumvirate
- 3. 'Political Bureau'. Ruling body of the Party
- 4. The process of cultivating friends into political positions
- 5. Legion. Rampaged through Russia during Civil War. Liquidated by Red Army
- 6. Felix. Founder and leader of the Cheka
- 7. Stage four of Marxism
- 8. 'Rich' peasants - probable Stalinist myth
- 10. 'Government'. Ruling body of the State
- 12. Appointed by Stalin to replace Zinoviev
- 14. Lenin's wife
- 16. Zinoviev was head of the Party in this city