21 January 1953Russian Democracy CampaignAlexander Fedorovich Kerensky
Kerensky records his position on russian democracy campaign in exile.
Historical records for Russia in 1953, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Kerensky records his position on russian democracy campaign in exile.
9 Russian & 6 Jewish doctors confess to the murder of Andrei Zhdanov
Stalins anti-Semitism becomes official state policy
9 Russian & 6 Jewish doctors confess to the murder of Andrei Zhdanov
Stalin arrests & charges 9 Kremlin doctors for plotting to kill Russian leaders. Outbreak of the Doctors Plot
9 Russian & 6 Jewish doctors confess to the murder of Andrei Zhdanov
28 doctors & their wives are arrested
Suffers from a stroke, doctors are frightened to treat him
Appointed Chairman of the Council of Minister's
Death of Joseph Stalin
Death of Joseph Stalin
Appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party
Appointed Prime Minister of Russia
Enters the collective leadership struggle that follows Joseph Stalin's death.
Comments on Stalin’s death and Soviet uncertainty.
Funeral of Joseph Stalin
Resigns as 1st Secretary
Receives promotion to lieutenant general while serving in senior military political administration.
Is transferred to senior political administration in the Soviet Navy after Stalin's death.
Becomes a secretary of the Communist Party Secretariat following Stalin's death.
Dismisses the "doctors plot" as "provocation & fake"
Appointed Secretary of the Party Secretariat, 1 of 5
Appointed Minister of Defence, 2nd term
Demonstrators march on the East German Government
Russia sends in troops & tanks to quell demonstrations in east German cities
Beria is arrested for being an agent
Arrested by Khruschev for allegedly planning a coup
Has Beria arrested for allegedly staging a coup
Supports the leadership coalition that arrests Lavrenti Beria and removes him from the post-Stalin power struggle.
Arrested by Khruschev for allegedly planning a coup
Has Beria arrested for allegedly staging a coup
Appointed Chairman of the Council of Minister's of Azerbaijan
Demonstrations breakout in Pilsen
Strikes breakout in Romania. Strikes breakout in Hungary
Tried for being a British agent, undermines relations between Russian nationalities
Supports removal of officials associated with Beria as the new leadership restructures the security apparatus.
Dismissed after the arrest of his protector, Beria
Strikes breakout at the Vorkuta labour camps in Siberia
Helps Russia test its own Hydrogen bomb
Contributes to the design tested as the Soviet Union's first thermonuclear device.
Appointed Member of Soviet Academy of Sciences
The achievement marks soviet thermonuclear device as an important Russian scientific milestone.
Appointed First Secretary of the CPSU
Is elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Marries Raisa Titorenko, a philosophy student at Moscow University
Marries Mikhail Gorbachev, then a student at Moscow University
Executed for attempting to succeed Stalin. Death of Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria
Executed for being an agent. Executed for attempting to succeed Stalin
Has Beria executed
Beria is executed after being removed from power and tried by the Soviet leadership.
Appointed Admiral
Appointed Chairman of the Belorussian Council of Minister's
Appointed Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, Head of State
Appointed Commander of the Soviet forces in Hungary
Appointed Commander in Chief in East Germany
Appointed Commander of the Kiev Military District
Appointed Commissar for Foreign Affairs, 2nd term, after the death of Stalin
Appointed First Deputy Minister of Defence
Solzhenitsyn begins a sentence of internal exile for life at Kok-Terek in southern Kazakhstan
Returns from exile after Stalins death
Appointed First Secretary of the Leningrad obkom
Appointed Head of State for Russia
Appointed Minister for Industry, after the death of Stalin
Claims that the doctors confessions had been elicited by torture & were false
Appointed Member of Politburo, Candidate Member
Appointed President of Russia
Appointed President of Russia
Publication of "Second Foundation"
Appointed 2nd Secretary of the Communist Party of the Ukraine
Presides over a tribunal which sentences Lavrenti Beria to death
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