- USSR
- Red states?
- Whither Paul flew from Miami Beach via BOAC
- CIS precursor
- CIS precursor (5)
- Former UN member
- Russia, once
- World power until '91
- Former UN Security Council member
- Country in a 1969 Beatles song
- Former empire
- Letters in a noted '90s breakup?
- Red state with a noted border wall, briefly?
- Georgia was part of it: Abbr.
- Fighter of a brutal and ineffective ten-year war in Afghanistan
- Country that rhymes with "you don't know how lucky you are" in a 1968 song
- Letters on outdated globes
- So-called "evil empire"
- Miracle on Ice upset victims
- Bloc that included modern Moldova
- L.A. Olympics boycotter
- State that was the eventual result of the Russian Revolution: Abbr.
- Geopolitical entity from 1922 to 1991
- The Americans country
- Country that had the Olympic mascot Misha: Abbr.
- Former UN power
- Former geopolitical initials
- Cold War abbr.
- Back in the ___
- Cold War initials
- Cold War participant
- Largest country, once (abbr.)
- Red Heat setting, briefly
- Rocky IV setting
- Rocky IV setting: Abbr.
- Spies Like Us setting
- 1960 European Championship winner
- Country where Bernie Sanders honeymooned
- Former state whose motto was "Workers of the world, unite!"
- Its flag had a hammer and sickle
- Its motto was "Workers of the world, unite!": Abbr.
- Nation that launched the first satellite
- Where Maria Sharapova was born
- Georgia was a part of it: Abbr.
- Glasnost nat.
- Setting for the final chess matches in "The Queen's Gambit"
- Country where Sergey Brin was born
- Miracle on Ice team
- Cold War losers
- Moldova was once part of it: Abbr.
- Where Volodymyr Zelenskyy was born
- World power
- Back in the ___ (Beatles)
- Back in the __ (Beatles)
- Land of bears?
- Cold War inits.
- Cold War letters
- Pre-CIS nation
- Cold War power
- SALT signer
- Back in the __
- SALT party
- Georgia, etc., once
- Former 15-member grp.
- WWII ally
- Back in the ___ (Beatles hit)
- CCCP, to us
- Cold War participant: abbr.
- Back in the ___ (Beatles song)
- Country that launched Sputnik: Abbr.
- Back in the___ (1968 song)
- SALT participant
- Former gp. of red states?
- Where to "hear your balalaikas ringing out," in a Beatles tune
- Intl. power, once
- Title location of "the snow-peaked mountains way down south", in song
- It competed after its breakup as, ironically, the Unified Team
- See 22-Down
- The "home" in the classic song lyric "Gee, it's good to be back home"
- Cold war superpower
- Dec. 1991 newsmaker
- Former Warsaw Pact nation
- Russia used to be a part of it (abbr.)
- Onetime ice hockey powerhouse: Abbr.
- Ninotchka setting
- One side of the 1939-40 Winter War
- Onetime chess powerhouse
- The Belovezha Accords ended it
- The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band was the first American rock band to tour here
- Issuer of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour honor
- Former Eurasian superpower
- Nation disbanded in 1991
- 1980 Olympics host
- 1984 Olympics boycotter
- Former rival of the USA
- Superpower until 1991
- Atlas abbr. before 1991
- Cold War rival of the USA
- It dissolved in Dec. '91
- Pre-1991 superpower
- Pre-1991 world power
- UN member until 1991
- Back in the ___ (Beatles tune)
- It became the CIS
- Nation in Dec. 1991 news
- Pre-1991 atlas abbr.
- Ray Stevens' "Surfin' ___"
- The Beatles' "Back in the ___"
- Country in a 1969 Beatles song title
- Gorbachev's country (abbr.)
- Letters on an old map of Asia
- Khrushchev's land (abbr.)
- Nation that dissolved in 1991
- Old map letters
- Reagan's "Evil Empire" (abbr.)
- Cold War bloc
- Country in a Beatle song
- Five-Year Plan empire
- Mir launcher
- USA rival in the Cold War
- Bloc that dissolved in 1991
- Gorbachev's nation
- SALT signatory
- 1984 Summer Games boycotter
- Country featured in a Beatles song
- Former Red giant
- It broke up in Dec. of '91
- The KGB's country
- The Olympics' 1980 host and 1984 boycotter
- Cosigner of the ABM Treaty
- Moscow was its cap.
- Warsaw Pact land
- Old UN member
- Russia was part of it (abbr.)
- KGB country
- One-time Red giant
- State in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991
- Brezhnev's initials?
- Cold War foe, briefly
- Old NATO worry
- Evil empire initials
- Country founded in 1922 (abbr.)
- One-time Red giant (abbr.)
- Ally of E. Germany
- Cold War power, briefly
- Khrushchev's country (abbr.)
- Abbr. in outdated atlases
- Warsaw Pact nation
- Evil empire, to Pres. Reagan
- It broke up in 1991 (abbr.)
- World superpower until 1991
- Bygone national acronym
- CCCP, to Reagan
- Chess powerhouse until 1991
- Lenin ruled it and Lennon sang about it
- Miracle on Ice losers
- MIKHAIL KALININ'S COUNTRY
- Former Red letters
- Former UN intials
- Stalin's map: Abbr.
- Evil Empire
- The Evil Empire
- Collapsed empire
- Former Soviet inits.
- Khrushchev's country
- Once powerful ltrs.
- Reagan's "Evil Empire"
- Cold War country, for short
- It annexed Latvia in '40
- Cold War country, briefly
- Cold War gp.
- Five-Year Plan nation
- Locale in a Beatles title
- Red letters?
- Soyuz launcher
- Tass country
- Cold war country: Abbr.
- Cold war rival: Abbr.
- WWII power
- Ctry. announcing an Olympic pull-out on 5/7/84
- Land in a Beatles song
- Sputnik launcher: Abbr.
- Tass country: Abbr.
- Cold War empire: Abbr.
- SALT talks participant
- 20th-cen. superpower
- Outdated globe letters
- U.S. ally in WWII
- WWII U.S. ally
- Warsaw Treaty Org. member
- Amer. WWII ally
- CIS predecessor
- Old atlas abbr.
- Old atlas initials
- Empire until 1991: Abbr.
- Gp. dissolved 12/26/1991
- Pres. Reagan's "evil empire"
- Old Eurasian letters
- Political org. until 1991
- 1979 Afghanistan invader: Abbr.
- Old map initials
- Red power, initially
- Sputnik launcher
- BOAC destination in a Beatles hit
- Bygone U.N. member
- Gorbachev's land: Abbr.
- Lith. and Ukr. were part of it
- World power until 1991: Abbr.
- BOAC flier's destination in a 1968 song
- Amer. ally in WWII
- SALT I participant
- Foe in a four-plus-decade "war"
- Miracle on Ice loser
- World power initials until 1991
- Cold War power: Abbr.
- Country in a Beatles title
- MiG developer
- Space Race inits.
- 44-Across' land: Abbr.
- Cold War enemy
- Country in a Beatles song
- Mir launcher: Abbr.
- Old map abbr.
- Space race initials
- Spy-fi country
- Spy-fi side, often
- World power in many spy-fi novels
- Letters on an outdated globe
- Nat. dissolved in 1991
- Spy-fi side
- USA rival in the space drama "For All Mankind"
- Gorby's realm, once: Abbr.
- Where Gorbachev ruled: Abbr.
- '84 Olymmpics no-show
- Former Security Council member
- Former Warsaw Pact member
- Former federation
- Khrushchev's realm: Abbr.
- Lenin's land: Abbr.
- Former map abbr.
- Former superpower
- Former map initials
- Stalin's domain: Abbr.
- Beatles' "Back in the __"
- Former map letters
- Former power
- Khrushchev's domain
- Soviet Union, briefly
- Stalin's domain
- George Kennan specialty
- Onetime UN power
- Pre-1992 map abbr.
- UN member, 1945-1991
- 1980 Summer Olympics host
- Cold War adversary
- Old polit. letters
- Cold War principal
- Ex-UN member
- 20th-c. nation
- Erstwhile power
- Lenin's land
- Moscow's former country: Abbr.
- SALT superpower
- Cold War adversary: Abbr.
- KGB creator
- US' cold-war adversary
- Abbr. in old atlases
- Boycotter in 1984 headlines
- Former Russian nation: Abbr.
- One of the WWII Allies
- Red state, formerly
- Cold War opponent: Abbr.
- Former geopolitical letters
- KGB's country
- UN member until '91
- Warsaw Pact member
- '84 Olympics boycotter
- Russia, on old maps
- Setting of the first Tintin comic
- Former abbr. for Russia
- Space Race contender
- Space Race competitor
- Cold War-era letters
- KGB organizer
- 37 Down, another way
- Dissolution of Dec. 1991
- Red state, once
- Where Rocky won in '85
- Russia, on older globes
- Where Rocky fought Ivan Drago
- Cosmonaut's country, for short
- Country in a Beatles song title
- Cold War country
- Cold War foe
- It dissolved in December 1991
- Its parts included an Arm. and a Lat.
- Red giant that's broken apart
- Former Olympics powerhouse
- Warsaw Pact country
- 1984 Summer Olympics boycotter
- KGB funder
- Space race participant
- Miracle on Ice losing team
- Boycotter of the L.A. Games
- Focus of a big breakup in '91
- United Nation.
- Muzjik's habitat.
- UNO member.
- One of the Big Three: Initials.
- Upholder of veto right in U. N.
- Soviet Union.
- Malik's country.
- Member of the Paris conference.
- Member of the U. N.
- Sixteen constituent republics.
- Malik's land.
- Turkomen, Uzbek, etc.
- Hammer and sickle land.
- Hammer and sickle.
- Home of N. K. V. D.
- Part of the world in darkness.
- Red letters of a grim power.
- Home of the M. V. D.
- Manufacturer of Iron Curtains.
- Communist stronghold.
- Amb. Bohlen's post.
- Initials of a country.
- Land of B and K.
- Member nation of the U. N.
- Security Council member.
- Country of the sudden shake-up.
- Country.
- Llewellyn Thompson's new post.
- The Great Enigma.
- Uzbek, Tajik, etc.
- Gargantuan land.
- Kremlin monogram.
- Part of the globe.
- Sputnik's birthplace.
- Uzbek, Tadzhik, et al.
- Armenia, Georgia, Moldavia, etc.
- Country in headlines.
- Hammer and sickle monogram.
- Initials in U. N.
- Amb. Thompson's post.
- Eastern nation: Abbr.
- Home of the Reds.
- Home of the borzoi.
- See 51 Across.
- U. N. member.
- Initials in the headlines
- Sputnik land.
- Where Georgia is: Abbr.
- China's neighbor.
- Home of ballet.
- Kohler's post.
- Pasternak's country: Abbr.
- Winter Olympics winner.
- Initials in the news.
- Leonov's land.
- Nureyev's land.
- Where the Don flows: Abbr.
- Large land mass.
- Familiar initials.
- Neighbor of China.
- Shostakovich's land.
- U. N. initials.
- Archangel's country: Abbr.
- Georgia, etc.: Abbr.
- U.N. nation
- Eur. land
- Eur. state
- Home of 56 Across: Abbr.
- Neighbor of Pol.
- Where the Dnieper flows
- Great power
- Poland's neighbor: Abbr.
- Where Archangel is
- Neighbor of Hung.
- Eur. power
- Gromyko's land: Abbr.
- Vodka-land initials
- World power: Abbr.
- Eur. country
- Kremlin initials
- Moscow's domain
- U.N. power
- Neighbor of Afgh.
- Initials since 1922
- Gymnast Korbut's homeland
- Sputnik's bpl.
- Crimea's locale
- U.S.A. rival
- Helsinki signatory
- Home of the K.G.B.
- Kazakh, Uzbeck et al.
- World's largest oil producer
- Georgia's loc.
- Muscovite's home
- Security Council mem.
- Bearish initials
- Largest nation: Abbr.
- World's largest country
- Eurasian nation: Abbr.
- Superpower's initials
- An Afg. neighbor
- Buryat Republic's locale
- Russia's locale
- Red initials
- Warsaw Pact participant
- World's largest land
- Korbut's homeland: Abbr.
- A neighbor of Pol.
- U.N. Security Council member
- Former cold-war antagonist
- Where the Ussuri flows
- It's now C.I.S.
- C.I.S., once
- Former inits. in Kiev
- Former largest nation, for short
- Former world pwr.
- Gorby's domain, once
- Rus., Ukr., etc., once
- Stalin ruled it
- Founding member of the U.N. Security Council, for short
- Geographical inits. until 1991
- Georgia was once a part of it
- Red state, once, for short
- Red states, once
- Ex-superpower
- Locale in a Beatles song
- Brezhnev's land
- Stalin's land
- The Beatles' "Back in the ____"
- 90-Down's land
- Bear country?
- Once-mighty initials
- Stalin's realm
- Former G.D.R. ally
- It broke up in Dec. 1991
- One of the Allies of W.W. II
- Former world power, for short
- Subj. of a 1991 breakup
- Boycotter of the '84 L.A. Olympics
- Khrushchev's concern
- Former "evil empire"
- Moscow's land, once: Abbr.
- Where Kalinin was pres.
- Gorbachev was its last leader: Abbr.
- 15-Down rival, once
- Brezhnev's land, in brief
- Former empire inits.
- Lenin's land, for short
- SALT I signer
- U.N. member through 1991
- Evil empire of the '80s
- Five-Year Plan implementer, for short
- Yalta conf. locale
- Stalingrad's land, for short
- 56-Across's cold war foe
- Cold war foe, for short
- See 4-Down
- CCCP, in English
- Former part of 11-Down: Abbr.
- It disappeared on Dec. 26, 1991
- Locale in a 1968 Beatles song
- 1-Down's land
- BOAC destination, in song
- Country that disappeared in '91
- Country with a hammer-and-sickle flag, for short
- Erstwhile empire, in brief
- Red giant, once?
- Treaty signer with Ger. in 1939
- Old NATO target
- Reagan's "evil empire," for short
- Apt anagram of "Russ."
- Stalin's land, in brief
- Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signatory, briefly
- Group of red states, for short?
- Initialism in a Beatles title
- Khrushchev's land, for short
- Miracle on Ice loser of '80
- Red giant that disintegrated?
- 1991 breakup newsmaker
- Gorbachev's land
- Gorbachev's land, for short
- One 29-Across of the U.S. in W.W. II
- America's Cold War foe, for short
- Country in a classic Beatles title
- Space race competitor, for short
- 1922-91 initials
- American ally in W.W. II
- Collapsed red giant?
- State led by Lenin, in brief
- Founding member of the U.N. Security Council
- It raised a major red flag
- Leningrad's land, for short
- Name in a noted '90s breakup
- Cold War power, in brief
- Federation formed in 1922, for short
- Losing team in the "Miracle on Ice" hockey game
- Map inits. until 1991
- Old map inits.
- Red states, once, in brief
- Space Race country
- World power from 1922 to 1991 (Abbr.)
- Former governor of Georgia?
- Grp. that launched 41-Across
- It broke up on Dec. 26, 1991
- Old org. for Armenia
- One-sixth of the world's ground surface until 1991, in brief
- Cold War power, for short
- It's written as "C.C.C.P." in Cyrillic
- Zangief's country in "Street Fighter II"
- Home to every undisputed world chess champions during the 1950's and 1960's
- Russia, before 1991
- Brezhnev's empire
- Brezhnev's fed.
- Stalin's empire
- KGB's place
- World power until 1991
- Moscow's fed., once
- Pre-'91 superpower
- Gorbachev's fed.
- KGB's land
- Gorbachev's empire
- Pre-'91 world power
- Pre-'91 empire
- Empire until '91
- KGB's milieu
- Back in the ___" rnr 2014 USSR Billy Joel's Beatles cover Back in the ___"
- Where the Beatles were "Back in"?
- Back in the ___, you don't know how lucky you are, boy
- Beatles "Back in the ___"
- Beatles were "Back in" it
- Where The Beatles went "Back" to?
- Red state with a noted border wall?
- Frequent David Remnick topic
- It died in 1991 at the age of 68
- Country in a "White Album" title
- It's been dead a decade
- Kamchatka to Kaliningrad, once
- Onetime rival of 25 Down
- Subject of a whimsical "White Album" tune
- Place in a Beatles title
- Fed. that dissolved in 1991
- Soyuz 1 launcher
- Sputnik launcher, in brief
- Superpower until '91
- Country that underwent perestroika in the eighties and nineties: Abbr.
- Team that lost the Miracle on Ice, in 1980: Abbr.
- Country whose collapse marked the end of what the historian Eric Hobsbawm called the "short twentieth century"
- SALT I signatory
- Subj. of a 1991 dissolution
- Back in the _____ (Beatles jam)
- 1984 Olympics no-show
- Beatles song "Back in the _____"
- Former world power
- Atlas abbr. until 1991
- Back in the _____ (Beatles tune)
- Back in the _____ (Beatles)
- Evil Empire, according to Reagan
- Biggest breakup of 1991
- CCCP on 20th-century maps
- Cold War side
- Communist powerhouse, once
- Former Olympic team
- Former communist country
- Former world power, briefly
- Former world power, shortly
- Gorby's former domain
- It's Russia now
- NATO target
- Cold War concern
- Locale in a Beatles title spot
- Locale in a Beatles song title
- Old atlas abbreviation
- 1984 summer Olympics no-show
- Beatles song "Back in the ___"
- Gorby's domain
- Old NATO concern
- Where Gorbachev ruled
- Aka CCCP
- Now CIS
- One-time superpower
- Miracle on Ice opponent
- CIS forerunner
- Russia was part of it
- Superpower that dissolved in the 1990s
- Warsaw Pact country (Abbr.)
- Former communist country, briefly
- Warsaw Pact member (Abbr.)
- 1980 Winter Olympics host
- Former communist state
- Ex-superpower letters
- It dissolved in Dec. 1991
- Letters for an ex-superpower
- Software purchaser
- Now, it's just Russia
- Vanished superpower
- Back in the ___ (Beatles jam)
- Brezhnev's domain
- Gorbachev's nation, once
- Nation in stunning 1991 news
- Second country to develop the atom bomb
- Superpower no more
- Country renamed in 1991
- Superpower of old
- Big part of old maps
- Dissolved bloc (abbr.)
- Dissolver of Dec. 1991
- It dissolved on 12/31/91
- Map initials no more
- Allegiance of "The Americans" on TV, ironically
- Defunct Asian country, briefly
- Largest country until late '91
- Map initials until 1991
- A Gentleman in Moscow setting, briefly
- Confederation that included Latvia, for short
- Global power that broke up in '91
- It dissolved in '91
- KGB state, once
- Back in the ___ (Beatles title)
- Cold War side, briefly
- Country that dissolved in '91
- Kazakhstan's former country: Abbr.
- Russia, once: Abbr.
- Country assigned the .su domain in 1990: Abbr.
- Country whose Cyrillic name was CCCP
- Letters from the Cold War
- Mikhail Gorbachev was its last leader: Abbr.
- CCCP was on its stamps
- Powers' crash site: abbr.
- UN group of yore
- Former Russ. federation
- Stalin's gov.
- Russia formerly
- Gorby's crumbled empire: abbr.
- Russia at one point
- Beatles. hit Back in the ___
- Initials on old maps
- <I>Back in the ___<I>
- Stalin's empire, briefly
- UN member, once
- 1968 Beatles' hit "Back in the ___"
- 20th C. superpower
- Former super power, briefly
- Former world power: abbr.
- World power, once
- Letters on old maps
- HUAC concern
- KGB whereabouts
- Red giant now broken up
- J.F.K. adversary
- Nikita's realm, once
- Russia, of yesterday
- Bygone atlas listing
- Letters on an old Asian map
- See 1-Across
- Country dissolved Dec. 8, 1991
- Country founded in 1922
- Extinct red giant
- It died in 1991
- KGB locale
- Khrushchev's home
- Red giant now in pieces?
- START I treaty party
- Letters on an old map
- Notable break-up of 1991
- Where "the Ukraine girls really knock me out"
- Gorbachev led it last
- Gorbachev's former domain
- It broke up in 1991
- Sputnik's birthplace, for short
- Atlas initials until 1991
- Moscow's land, once
- Onetime USA foe
- Sputnik launcher, briefly
- Eastern Bloc letters until 1991
- World power until 1991, briefly
- The Evil Empire (Abbr.)
- CCCP, to the West
- Estonia's former bloc, briefly
- Space Race rival of the U.S.
- World power from 1922-1991
- Brezhnev's country
- U.S.'s Space Race competitor
- World's largest country from 1922 to 1991
- Space Race rival for the U.S.
- Former gt. power
- Bloc letters, once
- Politburo letters
- Fed. dissolved by the Belavezha Accords
- Bolsheviks' nation
- Federation that dissolved in 1991
- Khrushchev's nation
- Nation that banned "Doctor Zhivago": Abbr.
- KGB's home
- Group that disbanded in 1991, briefly
- Gorbachev was its last pres.
- It ceased to be in Dec. 1991
- Country estab. in 1922
- RWR's "evil empire"
- KGB's nation
- 1991 breakup site
- Gorbachev's nation: Abbr.
- Estonia used to be pt. of it
- Ger. invaded it in June 1941
- Evil Empire, per RWR
- Nat. where Putin was born
- Cold War nation: Abbr.
- Pres. Putin was born in it
- Abbr. on pre-1992 maps
- KGB's base
- Beatles title locale
- Focus of a 1991 breakup
- Kitchen Debate state, briefly
- Putin was born in it
- Where "Moscow girls make me sing and shout," in a Beatles song
- Cold War nat.
- Destination of a flight in a Beatles song
- Abbr. in a Beatles title
- Birth nation of M. Baryshnikov
- KGB base
- Nat. that launched 52-Across
