Lenin Peace Prize
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
's equivalent to the Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
, named in honor of Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...
. It was awarded by a panel appointed by the Soviet government, to notable individuals whom the panel indicated had "strengthened peace among peoples". It was founded as the International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples, but was renamed the International Lenin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples as a result of destalinization. Unlike the Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
, the Lenin Peace Prize was usually awarded to several people a year rather than to just one individual. The prize was mainly awarded to prominent Communists
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
and supporters of the Soviet Union who were not Soviet citizens.
History
The prize was created as the International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples on December 21, 1949 by the ukazUkase
A ukase , in Imperial Russia, was a proclamation of the tsar, government, or a religious leader that had the force of law...
of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet was a Soviet governmental institution – a permanent body of the Supreme Soviets . This body was of the all-Union level , as well as in all Soviet republics and autonomous republics...
in honor of Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
's seventieth birthday (although it was actually after his seventy-first). Following Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964...
's denunciation of Stalin during the Twentieth Party Congress
20th Congress of the CPSU
The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was held during 14– 25 February 1956. It is known especially for Nikita Khrushchev's "Secret Speech", which denounced the personality cult and dictatorship of Joseph Stalin....
of 1956, the prize was renamed on September 6 the International Lenin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples. All previous recipients were asked to return their Stalin Prizes so they 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. Two years later, after the USSR had collapsed, the Russian government, as the successor state to the defunct Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
, ended the award program.
The International Lenin Prize should not be confused with the International Peace Prize, awarded by the World Peace Council
World Peace Council
The World Peace Council is an international organization that advocates universal disarmament, sovereignty and independence and peaceful co-existence, and campaigns against imperialism, weapons of mass destruction and all forms of discrimination...
. There was also a Stalin Prize
USSR State Prize
The USSR State Prize was the Soviet Union's state honour. It was established on September 9, 1966. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, the prize was followed up by the State Prize of the Russian Federation....
(later renamed the USSR State Prize) created during 1941 which was awarded annually to accomplished Soviet writers, composers, artists and scientists.
1950–1955 (International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples)
Pablo PicassoPablo Picasso
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(1950) Frédéric Joliot-Curie
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(1950) Soong Ching-ling
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(Madame Sun Yat-sen) (1950) Hewlett Johnson
Hewlett Johnson
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(1950) Eugénie Cotton (1950) Arthur Wheelock Moulton
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(1950)-Declined Pak Chong Ae (1950) Heriberto Jara Corona
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(1950) Guo Moruo
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(1951) Monica Felton (1951) Oyama Ikuo (1951) Pietro Nenni
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(1951) Anna Seghers
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(1951) Jorge Amado
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(1951) Johannes Becher
Johannes R. Becher
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(1952) Eliza Branco (1952) Ilya Ehrenburg
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(1952) Rev. James Gareth Endicott
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(1952) Yves Farge
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(1952) Saifuddin Kitchlew (1952) Paul Robeson
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(1952) Andrea Andreen (1953) John Desmond Bernal
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(1953) Isabelle Blume (1953) Howard Fast
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(1953) Andrew Gaggiero (1953) Leon Kruczkowski
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(1953) Pablo Neruda
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(1953) Nina Vasilevna Popova (1953) Sir Sahib Singh Sokhey (1953) Pierre Cot
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(1953) Alain Le Léap (1954) Baldomero Sanín Cano
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(1954) Prijono
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(1954) Bertolt Brecht
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(1954) André Bonnard (1954) Thakin Kodaw Hmaing
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(1954) Felix Iversen
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(1954) Nicolás Guillén
Nicolás Guillén
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(1954) Denis Nowell Pritt
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(1954) Lázaro Cárdenas
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(1955) Mohammed Al-Ashmar (1955) Karl Joseph Wirth (1955) Tôn Đức Thắng (1955) Akiko Seki (1955) Ragnar Forbech (1955)
Since 1957 (International Lenin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples)
Louis AragonLouis Aragon
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(1957) Emmanuel d'Astier
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(1957) Heinrich Brandweiner (b. 1910) (1957) Danilo Dolci
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(b. 1924) (1957) Maria Rosa Oliver (b. 1898) (1957) Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
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(1957) Udakandawala Saranankara Thero (b. 1902) (1957) Nikolay Semenovich Tikhonov
Nikolay Semenovich Tikhonov
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(1957) Josef Lukl Hromádka (1958) Artur Lundkvist
Artur Lundkvist
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(1958) Louis Saillant (1958) Kaoru Yasui (1958) Arnold Zweig
Arnold Zweig
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(1958) Otto Buchwitz (1959) W. E. B. Du Bois (1959) Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964...
(1959) Ivor Montagu
Ivor Montagu
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(1959) Kostas Varnalis
Kostas Varnalis
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(1959)
1960s
Laurent CasanovaLaurent Casanova
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(1960) Cyrus Eaton
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(1960) Sukarno
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(1960) Aziz Sharif (1960) Aleksandr Evdokimovich Korneichuk (1960) Fidel Castro
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(1961) Ostap Dlussky (b. 1892 in Buczacz) (1961) William Morrow (b. 1888) (1961) Rameshwari Nehru
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(b. 1886) (1961) Mihail Sadoveanu
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(1961) Antoine Tabet (1961) Ahmed Sékou Touré
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Ahmed Sékou Touré was an African political leader and President of Guinea from 1958 to his death in 1984...
(1961) Konstantin Simun
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- Biography :Simun was born in Leningrad, USSR, in 1934. He studied sculpture at the secondary school of Arts at the I. Repin Art Institute in Leningrad, then at the Tallinn Art Institute in Estonia, and from 1953 to 1957 at the I. Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1958 he...
(1962) István Dobi
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(1962) Olga Poblete de Espinosa (1962) Faiz Ahmed Faiz
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Faiz Ahmad Faiz was a Pakistani intellectual, poet, and one of the most famous poets of the Urdu language. He was a member of the Anjuman Tarraqi Pasand Mussanafin-e-Hind and an avowed Marxist. In 1962, he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union...
(1962) Kwame Nkrumah
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(1962) Pablo Picasso
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(1962) Georgi Traikov
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Georgi Traykov Girovski, also known as Georgi Traikov , was a Bulgarian politician, leader of Bulgarian Agrarian National Union....
(1962) Manolis Glezos
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(1962) Modibo Keita
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(1963) Oscar Niemeyer
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(1963) Dolores Ibárruri
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(1964) Rafael Alberti
Rafael Alberti
Rafael Alberti Merello was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27....
(1964) Aruna Asaf Ali
Aruna Asaf Ali
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(1964) Kaoru Ota (1964) Miguel Ángel Asturias
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales was a Nobel Prize–winning Guatemalan poet, novelist, playwright, journalist and diplomat...
(1965) Mirjam Vire-Tuominen (1965) Peter Ayodele Curtis Joseph (1965) Giacomo Manzù
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(1965) Jamsrangiin Sambuu
Jamsrangiin Sambuu
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(1965) Herbert Warnke (1966) Rockwell Kent
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(1966) Ivan Málek (1966) Martin Niemöller
Martin Niemöller
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(1966) David Alfaro Siqueiros
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(1966) Bram Fischer
Bram Fischer
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(1966) Joris Ivens
Joris Ivens
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(1967)
Nguyen Thi DinhNguyen Thi DinhNguyễn Thị Định was a Vietnamese communist during the Vietnam War.She was born from a peasant family in Ben Tre , and fought with the Viet Minh forces against the French...
(1967) Jorge ZalameaJorge ZalameaJorge Zalamea was a Colombian writer, best known for his anti-dictatorship satirical prose works. He was also an author of poems, dramas, novels, essays...
(1967) Romesh Chandra (1967) Endre SíkEndre SíkEndre Sík was a Hungarian historian, politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1958 and 1961. He was the younger brother of Sándor Sík, poet, piarist teacher....
(1967) Jean EffelJean EffelJean Effel, real name François Lejeune was French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist. Mostly he considered himself to be journalist and political commentator. His pseudonym is created by his initials F. L.- Life :Effel was born in Paris and graduated in art, music and philosophy...
(1967) Akira Iwai (b. 1922) (1968–69) Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1968–69) Khaled MohieddinKhaled MohieddinKhaled Mohieddine was an Egyptian politician and a major in the Egyptian Army. He participated in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, as a member of the Free Officers Movement, which overthrew the monarchy under King Farouk...
(1968–69) Linus PaulingLinus PaulingLinus Carl Pauling was an American chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He was one of the most influential chemists in history and ranks among the most important scientists of the 20th century...
(1968–69) Shafie Ahmed el Sheikh (b. 1924 – d. 1971) (1968–69) Bertil Svahnström (b. 1907 – d. 1972) (1968–69) Ludvík SvobodaLudvík Svobodathumb|Svoboda and [[I Corps |I Czechoslovak Army Corps]]Ludvík Svoboda was a Czechoslovak general and politician...
(1968–69)
1970s
Hikmat Abu ZaydHikmat Abu Zayd
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(1970–71) Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop (1970–71) Ernst Busch
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(1970–71) Tsola Dragoycheva
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(1970–71) Renato Guttuso
Renato Guttuso
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(1970–71) Kamal Jumblatt
Kamal Jumblatt
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(1970–71) Alfredo Varela (1970–71) James Aldridge
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(1972) Salvador Allende
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(1972) Leonid Brezhnev
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(1972) Enrique Pastorino (1972) Luis Corvalán
Luis Corvalán
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(1973–74) Raymond Goor (1973–74) Jeanne Martin-Cissé (1973–74) Hortensia Bussi de Allende
Hortensia Bussi
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(1975–76) János Kádár
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(1975–76) Seán MacBride
Seán MacBride
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(1975–76) Samora Machel
Samora Machel
Samora Moisés Machel was a Mozambican military commander, revolutionary socialist leader and eventual President of Mozambique...
(1975–76) Agostinho Neto
Agostinho Neto
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(1975–76) Pierre Pouyade
Pierre Pouyade
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(1975–76) Yannis Ritsos (1975–76) Kurt Bachmann (1977–78) Freda Yetta Brown
Freda Yetta Brown
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(1977–78) Angela Davis
Angela Davis
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(1977–78) Vilma Espín Guillois (1977–78) Kumara Padma Sivasankara Menon (1977–78) Halina Skibniewska (1977–78) Hervé Bazin
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(1979) Le Duan (1979) Urho Kekkonen
Urho Kekkonen
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(1979) Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi (1979) Miguel Otero Silva
Miguel Otero Silva
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(1979)
1980s
Mahmoud DarwishMahmoud Darwish
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(1980–82) John Morgan (1980–82) Líber Seregni (1980–82) Mikis Theodorakis
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(1980–82) Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhara was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms and a fourth term . She was assassinated by Sikh extremists...
(1983–84) Jean-Marie Legay (1983–84) Eva Palmer (1983–84) Nguyễn Hữu Thọ (1983–84) Luis Vidales (1983–84) Joseph Weber (1983–84) Charilaos Florakis
Charilaos Florakis
Charilaos Florakis was a leader of the Communist Party of Greece .Florakis was born on 20 July 1914 in the village of Paliozoglopi, located near Agrafa in the Itamos municipality, prefecture of Karditsa, Greece. He joined KKE, in 1941...
(1983–84) Miguel d'Escoto
Miguel d'Escoto
Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, born in Los Angeles on February 5, 1933, is a Nicaraguan diplomat, politician and former Catholic priest of the Maryknoll congregation of priests. He was recently nominated as Libyan Representative to the UN, a request which is currently pending...
(1985–86) Dorothy Hodgkin (1985–86) Herbert Mies (1985–86) Julius Nyerere
Julius Nyerere
Julius Kambarage Nyerere was a Tanzanian politician who served as the first President of Tanzania and previously Tanganyika, from the country's founding in 1961 until his retirement in 1985....
(1985–86) Petr Tanchev (1985–86) Evan Litwack (1986–87) Abdul Sattar Edhi
Abdul Sattar Edhi
Abdul Sattar Edhi, NI , or Maulana Edhi, as he is often known, is a Pakistani philanthropist. He is head of the Edhi Foundation, the world's largest ambulance help service and charity. Together with his wife, Bilquis Edhi, he received the 1986 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service. He is also...
(1988) Álvaro Cunhal
Álvaro Cunhal
Álvaro Barreirinhas Cunhal, who used the name Álvaro Cunhal , was a Portuguese politician. He was one of the major opponents of the dictatorial regime of Estado Novo. He served as secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party from 1961 to 1992...
(1989)
1990
Nelson MandelaNelson Mandela
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1 (1990)
1. Mandela was awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize in 1990 but, due to his trial and imprisonment in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
, was unable to accept the prize until 2002.
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 http://oldgazette.ru/pravda/21121949/index1.htmlPDF-version of issue of PravdaPravdaPravda was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991....
with ukaz about creation of prize.]