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Nadezhda Krúpskaya
Date: 1869-1939
Occupation: a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and one of the main contributors to the creation of the Soviet education system
Titles/achievements:
- Krupskaya, Nadezhda (1978). Communist Education: Lenin and Youth. Madrid: Our Culture.
- Krupskaya, Nadezhda. The working woman.
- Krupskaya, Nadezhda. My life with Lenin. Mandragora
- Krupskaya, Nadezhda. Memories of Lenin. Group of Translators of the Frederick Engels Foundation. -
V. I. Lenin
Dates: 1870-1924
Occupation: USSR leader
Titles/Achievements: -
Elena Stasova
Date: 1873-1966
Occupation: Politics; Technical Secretary of the Central Committee
Titles/Achievements:
– Hero of Socialist Labour
- Four Orders of Lenin -
Iósif Stalin
Dates: 1878 -1953 Occupation: Generalissimus of the Soviet Union Titles / Achievements:
- Hero of the Soviet Union
- Order of the Red Banner (4)
- Order of Lenin (3)
- Order of Victory (2)
- Order of Sukhbaatar (2)
- Order of Suvorov First Class
- Order of the Red Star First Class
- Order of the White Lion -
Josip Broz Tito
Date: 1892-1980
Occupation: Communist leader of Yugoslavia
Titles/achievements:
- Knight of the First Class of the Order of the Somali Star
- Commemorative Medal of the 2500th Anniversary of the Empire of Iran -
Nikita Jrushchov
Dates: 1894-1971
Occupation: Politician, military and statesman -
Dolores Ibarruri
Dates: 1895-1989 Occupation: General Secretary of the Spanish Communist Party Titles / Achievements: She was elected General Secretary of the Spanish Communist Party -
Fidel Castro
Date: 1926-2016 Occupation: Cuban lawyer, politician and revolutionary Marxist Titles/Achievements:
- Title of Hero of the Soviet Union
- Order of the Golden Star of Vietnam -
Che Guevara
Date: 14. 06. 1928 – 1967
Occupation: Revolutionary, guerrilla, politician and communist doctor
Titles/Achievements:
– Order of the White Lion in First Class
- Grand Cross of the National Order of the Southern Cross -
Art
Konstantín Fiódorovich Yuón, won a Stalin Prize -
Economics/Politics
The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia won the elections -
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Cold War
Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. -
Sport
World Chess Championship -
Economics/Politics
Establishment of the People's Republic of China -
Science
Soviet Union successfully tested a nuclear bomb -
Soviet Union successfully tested a nuclear bomb
The Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test, code-named 'RDS-1', at the Semipalatinsk test site in modern-day Kazakhstan. The device had a yield of 22 kilotons. -
Korea War
It was a war conflict that occurred on the Korean Peninsula between 1950 and 1953. Where they faced the Republic of Korea (or South Korea), supported by the armed forces of several countries commanded by the United States; and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (or North Korea), supported by the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union. The war was one of the early episodes of the Cold War. -
Anatoli Kárpov
Dates: 1951- Occupation: Chess player -
Sport
The USSR first participated at the Olympic Games -
Economics/Politics
Stalin’s death -
Art
Pavel Korin, won the USSR state prize (Stalin Prize) -
Economics/Politics
Warsaw Pact: The Warsaw Pact, also known as the Treaty of Friendship, Collaboration and Mutual Assistance, was an alliance signed by eight socialist countries during 1955, in the framework of the Cold War. -
Science
The first artificial satellite in history is launched, Sputnik -
Sputnik Launching
Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite. The spacecraft, named Sputnik after the Russian word for “satellite,” was launched at 10:29 p.m. Moscow time from the Tyuratam launch base in the Kazakh Republic. -
Economics/Politics
Sino-Soviet split -
Sport
The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy -
Construction of Berlin Wall (Ge)
The Berlin Wall was built in order to prevent more people from leaving East Germany behind to enter capitalism. The night began in August 1961, when a temporary wall was erected. -
Missile Crisis (Cu)
Russian Missile Launching facilities in Cuba after Bay of Pigs Invasion. -
Art
Mariam Aslamazian, recognized as Artist of the Armenian People -
Science
Luna 9 is launched -
Mao Revolution (Chi)
The Cultural Revolution, was a violent socio political purge movement in China from 1966 until 1976. Launched by Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China (CPC), its stated goal was to preserve Chinese communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society. -
Economics/Politics
Che Guevara is executed after being captured the day before -
Science
Venera 7 is launched -
Economics/Politics
Nikita Khrushchev dies -
Economics/Politics
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) agreement: Breznev and Nixon signed the SALT Agreements in Moscow in May 1972. This treaty limited the construction of strategic armaments and set a number for intercontinental missiles and submarine-mounted missile launchers owned by the USSR and the US. -
Art
Andrei Sakharov is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize -
Sport
The USSR became the host nation for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. -
Olympic Games (1980) or (1984)
The 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, officially known as the XXII Olympiad Games, were held on this occasion in Moscow, between 19 July and 3 August. The candidacy was launched at the last minute and Moscow won the election by 39 votes to 20 that Los Angeles received at the International Olympic Committee Session in Vienna. -
Art
Kamal Elekberov, was Artist of Honor of the Azerbaijan SSR -
Sport
1984 Summer Olympics boycott -
Perestroika and Glasnot (URSS):
Perestroika, concerned with the economic restructuring of the Soviet Union, on the contrary glásnost concentrated on liberalizing the political system -
Science
Chernobyl disaster -
Economics/Politics
Fall of the Berlin Wall -
Economics/Politics
Romanian Communist Party is dissolved
