1991 Death Kaganovitch, Russian minister of Transport for Stalin, dies 1967 Event Josef Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to U.S. 1967 Event Svetlana Alliluyeva (Josef Stalin's daughter) defects in New York City 1967 Event Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West 1967 Event Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US 1961 Event Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square 1956 Event Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public 1956 Event Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference 1956 Event Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin 1953 Event Josef Stalin buried in Moscow 1953 Death Josef V Stalin, soviet leader responsible for 11M murders, dies at 73 1953 Death Joseph Stalin, Russian Leader 1953 Event Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev and Malenkov 1952 Event Stalin meets Chou Enlai 1951 Event Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb 1950 Event Mao Tse Tung proclaims in telegram to Stalin, China intervenes Korea 1945 Event Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman and Churchill 1945 Event Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting 1945 Event Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin 1945 Event FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta 1944 Event British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin 1944 Event Stalin meets Polish/U.S. priest S Orlemanski 1943 Event FDR, Churchill and Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day) 1943 Event FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy 1943 Event Stalin says: "The issue of German fascism is lost" 1943 Event Stalin disbands Komintern 1942 Event British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin 1941 Event Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia 1941 Event Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion 1941 Event Dmitri Shostakovich receives the Stalin Prize 1939 Event Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: East Europe divided between Hitler and Stalin 1939 Event Stalin signs British-France-Russian anti-nazi pact 1939 Event Stalin requests British, French and Russian anti-nazi pact 1937 Event Stalin executes Rus officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna and Uberevitch 1937 Event U.S.S.R. executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continues 1937 Event 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov and 16 others sentenced to death 1937 Event Karl Radek and 16 others go on trial in Stalin's great purge 1935 Event Stalin views Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady Macbeth" 1934 Death Sergei M Kirov, Josef Stalin's collaborator, assassinated in Leningrad 1934 Event Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier" 1932 Death Nadya Aliluieva, wife of Joseph Stalin, dies at 30 1932 Event Stalin forces Zinoviev and Kamenev out of Communist Party 1931 Event Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee 1929 Event Stalin routes troops to Manchuria 1929 Event Stalin throws Nicolai Bucharin out of Politburo 1929 Event Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo 1927 Event Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in U.S.S.R., Trotsky expelled 1927 Event Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator 1926 Birthday Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Josef Stalin/author, My Life 1925 Event Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians 1923 Event Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin 1922 Event Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party 1917 Event Soviet regiment (Stalin/Lenin) declares Finland Independent 1917 Event People's Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin 1917 Event Lenin speaks against Kamenev, Kollontai, Stalin and Trotsky 1917 Event Stalin, Kamenev and Muranov arrives in St. Petersburg 1914 Birthday Sviatosiav Richter, born in Zhitomir, Ukraine, pianist, Stalin Prize-1945 1908 Birthday Viktor A Ambartsoemjan, Russian astronomer, Stalin Prize 1946, 1950 1907 Birthday Isaac Deutscher, Polish/English historian, Stalin/Trotsky biography 1902 Birthday Georgy M Malenkov, Stalin's successor as head of CPSU, PM, 1953-55 1899 Birthday Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin 1893 Birthday M Kaganovitsj Kogan, people's commissioner for Stalin 1879 Birthday Joseph Stalin, Russian dictator; murdered 11,000,000 1879 Birthday Joseph Wirth, German politician, Stalin Peace Prize
