Lenin Peace Prize
The International Stalin Prize or the International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples (renamed Russian: Международная Ленинская премия «За укрепление мира между народами», the International Lenin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples as a result of destalinization) was the Soviet Union's equivalent 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.
The International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples was created in 21 December 1949 by the ukaz of Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in honor of Josef Stalin's supposed seventieth birthday, although it was actually after his seventy-first. 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, on September 6 the prize was renamed the International Lenin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples. All previous recipients were asked to return their Stalin Prize so it could be replaced by the renamed Lenin Prize. By a Decision of Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of December 11 1989 the prize was renamed the International Lenin Peace Prize (Russian: международная Ленинская премия мира)[1] and ceased to be awarded two years later, in 1991.
The International Lenin Prize should not be confused with the International Peace Prize, awarded by the World Peace Council. There was also a Stalin Prize (later renamed the USSR State Prize) created in 1941 which was awarded annually to leading Soviet writers, composers, artists and scientists.
List of recipients
1950s
Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1950)[2]
Soong Ching-ling (Madame Sun Yat-sen) (1950)[2]
Hewlett Johnson (1950)[2]- Eugénie Cotton (1950)[2]
Arthur Moulton (1950)[2]
Pak Chong Ae (1950)[2]
Heriberto Jara Corona (1950)[2]- Guo Moruo (1951)[3]
- Monica Felton (1951)[4]
Oyama Ikuo (1951)[4]
Pietro Nenni (1951)[4]
Anna Seghers (1951)[4]
Jorge Amado (1951)[4]- Johannes Becher (1952)[4]
- Eliza Branco (1952)[4]
Ilya Ehrenburg (1952)[4]
Rev. James Gareth Endicott (1952)[4]- Yves Farge (1952)[4]
Saifuddin Kitchlew (1952)[4]- Paul Robeson (1952)[4]
Andrea Andreen (1953)[4]- John Desmond Bernal (1953)[3]
Isabelle Blume (1953)[4]- Howard Fast (1953)[4]
- Andrew Gaggiero (1953)[4]
Leon Kruczkowski (1953)[4]
Pablo Neruda (1953)[4]- Nina Vasilevna Popova (1953)[4]
- Sir Sahib-singh Sokhey (1953)[4]
- Bertolt Brecht (1954)[5]
André Bonnard (1954)[5]
Thakin Kodaw Hmaing (1954)[5]
Felix Iversen (1954)[5]
Nicolás Guillén (1954)[6]- Denis Nowell Pritt (1954)[7]
- Lázaro Cárdenas (1955)[8]
Mohammed Al-Ashmar (1955)[8]
Karl Joseph Wirth (1955)[8]
Ton Duc Thang (1955)[8]- Akiko Seki (1955)[8]
Ragnar Forbeck (1955)[8]- Louis Aragon (1957)[7]
- Emmanuel d'Astier (1957)[7]
Heinrich Brandweiner (b. 1910) (1957)[7]- Danilo Dolci (b. 1924) (1957)[7]
Maria Rosa Oliver (b. 1898) (1957)[7]- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1957)[7]
Udakandawala Saranankara Thero (b. 1902) (1957)[7]- Nikolay Semenovich Tikhonov (1957)[7]
Josef Lukl Hromádka (1958)[3]- Artur Lundkvist (1958)[3]
- Louis Saillant (1958)[3]
- Kaoru Yasui (1958)[3]
- Arnold Zweig (1958)[3]
- Otto Buchwitz (1959)[9]
- W.E.B. DuBois (1959)[9]
- Nikita Khrushchev (1959)[9]
- Ivor Montagu (1959)[9]
Kostas Varnalis (1959)[9]
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1960s
- Laurent Casanova (1960)[10]
Cyrus Eaton (1960)[10]
Sukarno (1960)[10]- Fidel Castro (1961)[11]
- Ostap Dlussky (b. 1892 in Buczacz) (1961)[11]
William Morrow (b. 1888) (1961)[11]- Rameshvari Neru (b. 1886) (1961)[11]
- File:Romania flag 1947-1989.png Mihail Sadoveanu (1961)[11]
Antoine Tabet (1961)[11]
Ahmed Sékou Touré (1961)[11]
István Dobi (1962)[12]- Olga Poblete de Espinosa (1962)[12]
Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1962)[12]
Kwame Nkrumah (1962)[12]- Pablo Picasso (1962)[12]
- File:Flag of Bulgaria 1946-1967.gif Georgi Traikov (1962)[13]
- Manolis Glezos (1962)[14]
- Oscar Niemeyer (1963)[14]
Dolores Ibárruri (1964)[6]- Rafael Alberti (1964)[15]
- Aruna Asaf Ali (1964) [15]
- Kaoru Ota (1964) [15]
Miguel Ángel Asturias (1965)[16]- Mirjam Vire-Tuominen (1965) [16]
Peter Ayodele Curtis Joseph (1965) [16]- Giacomo Manzù (1965) [16]
Jamtsarangiyn Sambuu (1965) [16]- Herbert Warnke (1966)[17]
- Rockwell Kent (1966) [17]
- Ivan Málek (1966) [17]
- Martin Niemöller (1966) [17]
- David Alfaro Siqueiros (1966) [17]
Bram Fischer (1966) [17]
Joris Ivens (1967)[18]
Nguyen Thi Dinh (1967) [18]
Jorge Zalamea (1967) [18]- Romes Chandra (1967) [18]
- Endre Sík (1967) [18]
- Jean Effel (1967) [18]
- Akira Iwai (b. 1922) (1968-69)[5]
- Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1968-69)[5]
Khaled Mohieddin (1968-69)[5]- Linus Pauling (1968-69)[5]
Shafie Ahmed el Sheikh (b. 1924 - d. 1971) (1968-69)[5]- Bertil Svahnstrom (b. 1907 - d. 1972) (1968-69)[5]
- Ludvík Svoboda (1968-69)[5]
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1970s
- Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop (1970-71)[19]
- Ernst Busch (1970-71)[19]
- File:Flag of Bulgaria 1971-1990.png Tsola Dragoicheva (1970-71)[19]
- Renato Guttuso (1970-71)[19]
- Kamal Jumblatt (1970-71)[19]
- Alfredo Varela (1970-71)[19]
- James Aldridge (1972)[20]
- Salvador Allende (1972)[20]
- Leonid Brezhnev (1972)[20]
Enrique Pastorino (1972)[20]- Luis Corvalán (1973-74)[21]
- Raymond Goor (1973-74)[21]
- Jeanne Martin-Cissé (1973-74)[21]
- Hortensia Bussi de Allende (1975-76)[22]
- János Kádár (1975-76)[22]
Seán MacBride (1975-76)[22]
Samora Machel (1975-76)[22]
Agostinho Neto (1975-76)[22]- Pierre Poujade (1975-76)[22]
Yannis Ritsos (1975-76)[22]- Kurt Bachmann (1977-78)[23]
- Freda Yetta Brown (1977-78)[23]
- Angela Davis (1977-78)[23]
- Vilma Espín Guillois (1977-78)[23]
- Krishna Menon (1977-78)[23]
- Halina Skibniewska (1977-78)[23]
- Hervé Bazin (1979)[24]
- Le Duan (1979)[24]
- Urho Kekkonen (1979)[24]
- Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi (1979)[24]
Miguel Otero Silva (1979)[24]
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1980s
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Mahmoud Darwish (1980-82)[25]
John Morgan (1980-82)[25]- Líber Seregni (1980-82)[25]
- Mikis Theodorakis (1980-82)[25]
- Indira Gandhi (1983-84) [26]
- Jean-Marie Léger (1983-84)[26]
- Eva Palmer (1983-84)[26]
- Nguyễn Hữu Thọ (1983-84)[26]
- Luis Vidales (1983-84)[26]
- Joseph Weber (1983-84)[26]
Miguel d'Escoto (1985-86)[27]- Dorothy Hodgkin (1985-86)[27]
- Herbert Mies (1985-86)[27]
Julius Nyerere (1985-86)[27]- File:Flag of Bulgaria 1971-1990.png Petr Tanchev (1985-86)[27]
1990
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- Nelson Mandela1 (1990)[28]
1. Mandela was awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize in 1990 but, due to his trial and imprisonment in South Africa, was unable to accept the prize until 2002.
References
- ^ "ПОСТАНОВЛЕНИЕ ПРЕЗИДИУМА ВС СССР ОТ 11.12.1989 N 905-1 О МЕЖДУНАРОДНОЙ ЛЕНИНСКОЙ ПРЕМИИ МИРА" (in Russian). 2006-10-12.
- ^ a b c d e f g О присуждении международных Сталинских премий "За укрепление мира между народами" за 1950 год. Pravda. Apr 6, 1951 [1]
- ^ a b c d e f g Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1959.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian) (2nd ed. ed.). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1953. pp. vol. 24, p. 366.
{{cite book}}:|edition=has extra text (help) - ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian) (3rd ed. ed.). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya.
{{cite book}}:|edition=has extra text (help) In some cases in GSE's 3rd edition the year is that, "in which" the Prize was awarded, in other cases - "for which". Hence, the year "1970" there seems to be the Prize "for 1969" or "for 1968-1969" - ^ a b Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1989.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1958.
- ^ a b c d e f О присуждении международных Сталинских премий "За укрепление мира между народами" за 1955 год. Pravda. Dec 21, 1955, page 1 [2]
- ^ a b c d e Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1960.
- ^ a b c Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1961.
- ^ a b c d e f g Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1962.
- ^ a b c d e Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1963.
- ^ Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1965.
- ^ a b Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1964.
- ^ a b c Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1966.
- ^ a b c d e Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1967. pp. p. 623.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help) - ^ a b c d e f Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1968. pp. p. 622.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help) - ^ a b c d e f Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1969. pp. p. 607.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help) - ^ a b c d e f Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1972. pp. p. 618.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help) - ^ a b c d Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1973. pp. p. 634.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help) - ^ a b c Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1975. pp. p. 653.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help) - ^ a b c d e f g Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1977. pp. p. 633.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help) - ^ a b c d e f Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1979. pp. p. 573.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help) - ^ a b c d e Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1980. pp. p. 577.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help) - ^ a b c d Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1983.
- ^ a b c d e f Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1985. pp. p. 571.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help) - ^ a b c d e Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1987. pp. p. 599.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help) - ^ The Great Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1991. pp. vol. 1, p. 759.
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
- Template:Ru icon PDF-version of issue of Pravda with ukaz about creation of prize.