Joseph Stalin Biography and Timeline — Page 17

First Soviet Atomic Test

The Soviet Union conducts its first atomic bomb test, ending the United States nuclear monopoly.

Role range: 1924-1953

Stalin condemns Tito

Stalin condemns Tito

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Diplomatic Negotiations at Moscow

Mao Tse-Tung has talks with Stalin in Moscow

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Comecon

The Comecon was the Eastern Blocs reply to the formation of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation in western Europe. Founds the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance to improve Soviet bloc trade. Founded by the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Political Support at Moscow

Supports the creation of the German Democratic Republic

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Nuclear Power

Russia successfully tests the atomic bomb

Role range: 1922-1953

Soviets Contest Western Security Arrangements

Stalin's government used United Nations diplomacy amid increasing tensions with Western powers.

United Nations

Britain appeals to Moscow to ask North Korea to stop the war, Russia declines

Role range: 1922-1953

Comecon

East Germany joins the Comecon

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Military Aid Agreement

Russia provides economic & military assistance to the PRC

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Council Acts During Soviet Absence

During the Soviet boycott, the Security Council adopted resolutions responding to North Korea's invasion of South Korea.

Soviet Delegation Returns To Council

The Soviet Union ended its Security Council boycott in August and resumed participation in its proceedings.

Soviets Boycott Security Council

The Soviet Union boycotted Security Council sessions over the representation of China.

Economy of Russia

5th Five-Year Plan, 1951-55

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

International Conference at Moscow

Russia proposes a 4 power conference on the unification & rearmament of Germany

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Unification

Russia proposes a 4 power conference on the unification & rearmament of Germany

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Diplomatic Proposal

Stalins proposals for German unification are rejected by the west

Role range: 1950-1953 – 1922-1953

Unification

Stalins proposals for German unification are rejected by the west

Role range: 1950-1953 – 1922-1953

Congress of Communist Party, 19th

19th Party Congress of the Communist Party

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Peace Treaty

Russia declares the peace Treaty with Japan invalid

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

CPSU

The Russian Communist Party is renamed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Execution

10 prominent Jews are found guilty of "Jewish nationalism" & shot

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Presidium

The Politburo is renamed the Presidium, it is the inner council & supreme body

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

KGB (Committee for State Security)

The Soviet Committee of State Security, KGB, is formed

Role range: 1922-1953

Persecution

Stalins anti-Semitism becomes official state policy

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Plot

Stalin arrests & charges 9 Kremlin doctors for plotting to kill Russian leaders. Outbreak of the Doctors Plot

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Plot

28 doctors & their wives are arrested

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Health of Joseph Stalin

Suffers from a stroke, doctors are frightened to treat him

Role range: 1922-1953

Death of Joseph Stalin

Death of Joseph Stalin

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Burial

Funeral of Joseph Stalin

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Cominform

The Cominform is dissolved after the Soviet rapprochement with Yugoslavia and the process of De-Stalinization

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Congress of Communist Party, 20th

During the Twentieth Party Congress Krushcev attacks Stalins cult of the individual

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Congress of Communist Party, 29th

During the Twentieth Party Congress Krushcev attacks Stalins cult of the individual

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Cult of Individual

During the Twentieth Party Congress Krushcev attacks Stalins cult of the individual. Decrees the end of the cult of the individual

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Burial

Stalins body is removed from Lenins side in the Mausoleum on Red Square

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953