The International Stalin Peace Prize (renamed Международная Ленинская премия «За укрепление мира между народами», the International Lenin Peace Prize as a result of destalinization) was the Soviet Union's answer to the Nobel Peace Prize. It was awarded by an international panel appointed by the Soviet government to notable individuals who the panel felt had "strengthened peace among peoples". The renamed Lenin Peace Prize is apparently still being awarded by the Russian government. De-Stalinization and the Khrushchev era For further details, see Nikita Khrushchev After Stalin had died in March 1953, he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and Georgi Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union. ... Nobel Peace Prize (where Nobel is pronounced with the stress on the second syllable) is one of five Nobel Prizes requested by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ...

The Stalin Peace Prize was created in 1949 by the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in honor of Josef Stalin's seventieth birthday. Unlike the Nobel Prize, the Stalin Peace Prize was usually awarded to several people a year rather than to just one individual. Following Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union held in 1956 the prize was renamed the International Lenin Peace Prize. All previous recipients were asked to return their International Stalin Peace Prize so it could be replaced by the renamed International Lenin Peace Prize. 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... The Politburo (in Russian: Политбюро), known as the Presidium from 1952 to 1966, functioned as the central policymaking and governing body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ... The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за = КПСС) was the name used by the successors of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party from 1952 to 1991, but the wording Communist Party was present in the partys name since 1918 when the Bolsheviks became the All... Joseph Stalin Iosif (Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი; see Other names section) (December 21, 18791 – March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a political leader in the Soviet Union. ... Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchyov (Khrushchev) (Russian: Ники́та Серге́евич Хрущёв   listen?, April 17, 1894 â€“ September 11, 1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. ... The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was held during February 14—February 26, 1956. ... The Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( Russian: Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за = КПСС) was the name used by the successors of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party from 1952 to 1991, but the wording Communist Party was present in the partys name since 1918 when... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

There was also a Stalin Prize created in 1941 which was awarded annually to leading Soviet writers, composers, artists and scientists. The USSR State Prize (Russian:Госуда́рственная пре́мия СССР) was the Soviet Unions highest civilian honour. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Soviet redirects here. ...

List of recipients

• Halldór Laxness (1949)
• Jorge Amado (1949)
• Pablo Picasso (1950)
• Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1951)
• Anna Seghers (1951)
• Hewlett Johnson (1951)
• Soong Ching-ling (Madame Sun Yat-sen) (1951)
• Martin Anderson Nexo
• Rev. James Gareth Endicott (1953)
• Eliza Branco (1953)
• Johannes Becher (1953)
• Sayfuddin Kichloo (1953)
• Ilya Ehrenburg (1953)
• Yves Farge (1953)
• Pablo Neruda (1953)
• Paul Robeson (1953)
• John Desmond Bernal (1953)
• Michael Sadovyany
• Leon Kruczkowski (1953)
• Nina Vasilevna Popova (1953)
• Andrea Andreen (1953)
• Isabelle Blume (1953)
• Andrew Gaggiero (1953)
• Sir Sahib-singh Sokhey (1953)
• Howard Fast (1953)
• Leon Kruczkowski (1953)
• Saifuddin Kitchlew (1954)
• Bertolt Brecht (1954)
• Joseph Wirth (1954)
• Felix Iversen (1954)
• Danilo Dolci (1958)
• W.E.B. DuBois (1959)
• Cyrus Eaton (1960)
• Fidel Castro (1961)
• Jorge Amado de Faria (1962)
• Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1962)
• Nelson Mandela (1962) ¹
• Kwame Nkrumah (1962)
• Olga Poblete de Espinosa (1962)
• István Dobi (1962)
• Manolis Glezos (1963)
• Oscar Niemeyer (1963)
• Dolores Ibárruri (1964)
• Miguel Ángel Asturias (1966)
• Linus Pauling (1967)
• Jean Eiffel (April 1968)
• Rockwell Kent
• Carlton Goodlett (1970)
• Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop (1972)
• Kamal Jumblatt (1972)
• Sam Nujoma (1973)
• Seán MacBride (1977)
• Angela Davis (1979)
• Mahmoud Darwish (1983)
• Mikis Theodorakis (1983)
• Harilaos Florakis (1984)
• Dorothy Hodgkin (1987)
• Lady Valerie Goulding
• Martti Ahtisaari

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DuBois William Edward Burghardt DuBois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an African American civil rights activist, sociologist, historian, writer, editor, poet, freemason, and scholar. ... Cyrus Stephen Eaton (December 27, 1883 - May 9, 1979) was a Canadian-American financier, industrialist and philanthropist. ... Cuban President Fidel Castro Fidel Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) has been the ruler of Cuba since 1959, when, leading the 26th of July Movement, he overthrew the than President of Cuba, Fulgencio Batista, and transformed Cuba into the first Communist state in the Western Hemisphere. ... Jorge Amado de Faria (August 10, 1912 – August 6, 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the Modernist school. ... Faiz Ahmed Faiz (فيض ١حمد فيض)(January 7, 1910 - 1984), is considered by many to be a poet in the great tradition of Urdu poets like Ghalib and Iqbal. ... 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External links

• Thoughts on winning the Stalin Peace Prize by Paul Robeson
• On Receiving the Stalin Peace Award by Howard Fast
• Address by Nelson Mandela on receiving the Lenin Peace Prize
• Soviet Prize Medals pictures of the medals and accompanying certificates