| Where the Ussuri flows | 22 |
| Where the Dnieper flows | 23 |
| Where the Beatles were "Back in"? | 43 |
| Where Kalinin was pres. | 23 |
| Where Gorbachev ruled | 21 |
| Where Archangel is | 18 |
| Whence the villains in the original "Red Dawn" | 56 |
| Whence Drago from "Rocky IV" | 38 |
| Warsaw Pact participant | 23 |
| Warsaw Pact member (Abbr.) | 26 |
| W.W. II ally | 12 |
| Vodka-land initials | 19 |
| USA rival in the Cold War | 25 |
| USÂ’ cold-war adversary | 26 |
| UN member until '91 | 23 |
| U.S.A. rival | 12 |
| U.S. ally in W.W. II | 20 |
| U.N. Security Council member | 28 |
| U.N. member until 1991 | 22 |
| U.N. member through 1991 | 24 |
| U.N. initials | 13 |
| Treaty signer with Ger. in 1939 | 31 |
| They sent Laika the dog into space in 1957 | 42 |
| The Olympics' 1980 host and 1984 boycotter | 46 |
| The KGB's country | 21 |
| The Beatles' "Back in the ____" | 45 |
| Superpower's initials | 25 |
| Superpower that left the map in the 1990s | 41 |
| Superpower that dissolved in the 1990s | 38 |
| Subj. of a 1991 breakup | 23 |
| State in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 | 34 |
| State for which "Animal Farm" is an allegory | 54 |
| Stalingrad's land, for short | 32 |
| Stalin's land, in brief | 27 |
| Stalin ruled it | 15 |
| Sputnik's bpl. | 18 |
| Sputnik's birthplace, for short | 35 |
| Space-race participant | 22 |
| Sov. Union | 10 |
| Security Council mem. | 21 |
| SALT superpower | 15 |
| RWR's "evil empire" | 33 |
| Russia's locale | 19 |
| Russia, of yesterday | 20 |
| Russia was part of it: Abbr. | 28 |
| Russia was part of it (abbr.) | 29 |
| Russia at one point | 20 |
| Rus., Ukr., etc., once | 22 |
| Red state, once | 15 |
| Red state, formerly | 19 |
| Red giant, once? | 16 |
| Red giant that's broken apart | 33 |
| Red giant that disintegrated? | 29 |
| Reagan's "evil empire," for short | 47 |
| Ray Stevens' "Surfin' ___" | 44 |
| Pres. Reagan's "evil empire" | 42 |
| Pre-1992 map abbr. | 18 |
| Pre-1991 power | 14 |
| Pre-'91 world power | 23 |
| Powers' crash site: abbr. | 29 |
| Poland's neighbor: Abbr. | 28 |
| Onetime UN power | 16 |
| Onetime international basketball powerhouse: Abbr. | 50 |
| One-time superpower | 19 |
| One-time Red giant (abbr.) | 26 |
| One of the Allies of W.W. II | 28 |
| Old UN member | 13 |
| Old polit. letters | 18 |
| Old NATO target | 15 |
| Old NATO concern | 16 |
| Old Eurasian letters | 20 |
| Old atlas abbreviation | 22 |
| Now CIS | 7 |
| NATO target | 11 |
| Nation that launched the first satellite | 40 |
| Muscovite's home | 20 |
| Moscow's land, once: Abbr. | 30 |
| Moscow's former country: Abbr. | 34 |
| Moscow's fed., once | 23 |
| Moscow's domain | 19 |
| Miracle on Ice loser of '80 | 31 |
| Member of the U.N. | 18 |
| Locale in a Beatles title | 25 |
| Locale in a Beatles song title | 30 |
| Locale in a 1968 Beatles song | 29 |
| Locale in a Beatles title spot | 31 |
| Lith. and Ukr. were part of it | 30 |
| Letters on the Allied side in WWII | 34 |
| Letters on old Asian maps | 25 |
| Lenin's land: Abbr. | 23 |
| Largest nation: Abbr. | 21 |
| Kremlin initials | 16 |
| Korbut's homeland: Abbr. | 28 |
| Khrushchev's land: Abbr. | 28 |
| Khrushchev's land, for short | 32 |
| Khrushchev's country (abbr.) | 32 |
| Khrushchev's concern | 24 |
| KGB's milieu | 16 |
| KGB's land | 14 |
| KGB funder | 10 |