23 February 1981New Arms Control ProposalLeonid Ilyich Brezhnev
Uses the Twenty-Sixth Party Congress to call for another round of arms-control negotiations.
Historical records for Russia in 1981, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Uses the Twenty-Sixth Party Congress to call for another round of arms-control negotiations.
Opens his final Communist Party Congress with a lengthy report on domestic and international policy.
Addresses the Twenty-Sixth Communist Party Congress before joining the party's Central Committee.
The Communist Party leadership is reconfirmed after the Twenty-Sixth Congress.
Discusses nuclear missiles, European security and arms negotiations with Helmut Schmidt.
Travels to West Germany for discussions with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt during renewed East-West tensions.
Receives a fourth Hero of the Soviet Union title late in his political career.
Supports the Polish Communist government's suppression of Solidarity after martial law is imposed.
Appointed Candidate Member of Central Committee of the Communist Party
Appointed Member of Central Committee
Appointed Member of Central Committee
Is elected to the Communist Party Central Committee at the Twenty-Sixth Party Congress.
Appointed Peoples Deputy
Linde develops new inflation models that address weaknesses in the first inflation proposal
Linde develops new inflation as a relativistic early universe model
The achievement marks quantum dots in glass as an important Russian scientific milestone.
Creates semiconductor nanocrystals in glass and observes size-dependent optical properties.
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