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| Lenin Peace Prize | |
|---|---|
 Lenin Peace Prize medal (1951) | |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Status | Discontinued |
| Established | 21 December 1949 |
 Ribbon of the prize | |
The International Lenin Peace Prize (Russian: международная Ленинская премия мира, mezhdunarodnaya Leninskaya premiya mira) was a Soviet Union award named in honor of Vladimir Lenin. It was awarded by a panel appointed by the Soviet government, to notable individuals whom the panel indicated had "strengthened peace among comrades". 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 (Russian: Международная Ленинская премия «За укрепление мира между народами», Mezhdunarodnaya Leninskaya premiya «Za ukrepleniye mira mezhdu narodami») as a result of de-Stalinization. Unlike the Nobel Prize, 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 and supporters of the Soviet Union who were not Soviet citizens. Notable recipients include W. E. B. Du Bois, Fidel Castro, Lázaro Cárdenas, Salvador Allende, Mikis Theodorakis, Seán MacBride, Angela Davis, Pablo Picasso, Oscar Niemeyer, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Abdul Sattar Edhi, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, CV Raman and Nelson Mandela.
History
The prize was created as the International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples on December 21, 1949, by executive order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in honor of Joseph Stalin's seventieth birthday (although this was after his seventy-first).
Following Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956 during the Twentieth Party Congress, the prize was renamed on September 6 as 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.[1] Two years later, after the collapse of USSR in 1991, the Russian government, as the successor state to the defunct Soviet Union, ended the award program. The Lenin Peace Prize is regarded as a counterpart to the existing Nobel Peace Prize.
The International Lenin Prize should not be confused with the International Peace Prize, awarded by the World Peace Council. In 1941 the Soviet Union created the Stalin Prize (later renamed the USSR State Prize), which was awarded annually to accomplished Soviet writers, composers, artists and scientists.
Stalin Prize recipients
| Year | Picture | Name | Occupation | Country | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 
|
Eugénie Cotton[2][3] (1881–1967) |
Scientist, President of the Women's International Democratic Federation |  France
|
Awarded 6 April 1951 |
|
Heriberto Jara Corona[2][3] (1879–1968) |
Politician, revolutionary |  Mexico
|
Awarded 6 April 1951 | |
|
Hewlett Johnson[2][3] (1874–1966) |
Church of England priest, Dean of Manchester (1924–1931), Dean of Canterbury (1931–1963) |  United Kingdom
|
Awarded 6 April 1951 | |
|
Frédéric Joliot-Curie[2][3] (1900–1958) |
Physicist, Member of the French Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Collège de France, President of the World Peace Council (1950–1958), Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1935) | France
|
Awarded 6 April 1951 | |
| Arthur Moulton[2][3] (1873–1962) |
Episcopal Bishop of Utah |  United States
|
Declined | ||
|
Pak Chong-ae[2][3] (1907–after 1986) |
Workers' Party of North Korea politician, Chairwoman of the Korean Democratic Women's League (1945–1965) |  North Korea
|
Awarded 6 April 1951 | |
|
Soong Ching-ling[2][3] (1893–1981) |
Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang politician, Vice President of China (1949–1954; 1959–1975) |  China
|
Awarded 6 April 1951 | |
| 1951 | 
|
Jorge Amado[4][5][6] (1912–2001) |
Writer, Member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (1961–2001) |  Brazil
|
Awarded 20 December 1951 |
|
Monica Felton[4][5] (1906–1970) |
Town planner, feminist, politician | United Kingdom
|
Awarded 20 December 1951 | |
|
Guo Moruo[7][4] (1892–1978) |
Writer, scientist, politician, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1949–1978) | China
|
Awarded 20 December 1951 | |
|
Pietro Nenni[4][5] (1891–1980) |
Italian Socialist Party politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy (1946–1947; 1968–1969), Deputy Prime Minister of Italy (1963–1968) |  Italy
|
Awarded 20 December 1951 | |
|
Oyama Ikuo[4][5] (1889–1955) |
Politician, Member of the House of Councillors of Japan |  Japan
|
Awarded 20 December 1951 | |
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Anna Seghers[4][5] (1900–1983) |
Writer, Socialist Unity Party politician, founding member of the DDR Academy of Arts |  East Germany
|
Awarded 20 December 1951 | |
| 1952 | 
|
Johannes R. Becher[5][8] (1891–1958) |
Writer, Socialist Unity Party politician, founding member of the DDR Academy of Arts | East Germany
|
Awarded 20 December 1952 |
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Elisa Branco[5][8] (1912–2001) |
Brazilian Communist Party politician, Vice President of the Council of Brazilian Advocates for Peace (1949–1960) | Brazil
|
Awarded 20 December 1952 | |
|
Ilya Ehrenburg[5][8] (1891–1967) |
Writer, journalist, war correspondent for World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II |  Soviet Union
|
Awarded 20 December 1952 | |
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James Gareth Endicott[5][8] (1898–1993) |
United Church of Canada clergyman, founder of Canadian Peace Congress, |  Canada
|
Awarded 20 December 1952 | |
|
Yves Farge[5][8] (1899–1953) |
Journalist, politician | France
|
Awarded 20 December 1952 | |
|
Halldór Laxness[9] (1902–1998) |
Writer, Nobel laureate in Literature (1955) |  Iceland
|
Awarded 20 December 1952 | |
|
Saifuddin Kitchlew[5][8] (1888–1963) |
Barrister, politician, Vice President of the World Peace Council (1955–1959), President of the All-India Peace Council |  India
|
Awarded 20 December 1952 | |
|
Paul Robeson[5][8] (1898–1976) |
Singer, actor, civil rights movement activist, | United States
|
Awarded 20 December 1952 | |
| 1953 | 
|
Andrea Andreen[5][10] (1888–1972) |
Physician, educator, Chairman of the Swedish Women's Left-Wing Association (1946–1964), Vice President of the Women's International Democratic Federation |  Sweden
|
Awarded 12 December 1953 |
| John Desmond Bernal[7][10] (1901–1971) |
Scientist, Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, Fellow of the Royal Society (1937), President of the World Peace Council (1959–1965) | United Kingdom
|
Awarded 12 December 1953 | ||
|
Isabelle Blume[7][10] (1892–1975) |
Belgian Labour Party politician, Member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for Brussels (1936–1954), President of the World Peace Council (1965–1969) |  Belgium
|
Awarded 12 December 1953 | |
|
Pierre Cot[10] (1895–1977) |
Radical Party politician, Member of the National Assembly of France for Savoie and Rhône (1928–1940) | France
|
Awarded 12 December 1953 | |
| Howard Fast[5][10] (1914–2003) |
Writer, 1952 American Labor Party presidential candidate | United States
|
Awarded 12 December 1953 | ||
| Andrea Gaggiero[5][10] (1916–1988) |
Priest | Italy
|
Awarded 12 December 1953 | ||
|
Leon Kruczkowski[5][10] (1900–1962) |
Writer, Member of the Sejm (1947–1962) |  Poland
|
Awarded 12 December 1953 | |
|
Pablo Neruda[5][6][10] (1904–1973) |
Poet, diplomat, Nobel laureate in Literature (1971) |  Chile
|
Awarded 12 December 1953 | |
|
Nina Popova[5][10] (1908–1994) |
Politician, Secretary of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions (1945–1957) | Soviet Union
|
Awarded 12 December 1953 | |
| Sahib Singh Sokhey[5][10] (1887–1971) |
Biochemist, Member of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Assistant Director General of the World Health Organization (1949–1952) | India
|
Awarded 12 December 1953 | ||
| 1954 | André Bonnard[11][12] (1888–1959) |
Scholar, writer, Professor at the University of Lausanne |  Switzerland
|
Awarded 18 December 1954 | |
|
Bertolt Brecht[11][12] (1898–1956) |
Playwright, poet, theatre director |  Austria (citizenship) East Germany (residence)
|
Awarded 18 December 1954 | |
|
Nicolás Guillén[6][11][13] (1902–1989) |
Poet |  Cuba
|
Awarded 18 December 1954 | |
|
Felix Iversen[11][12] (1887–1973) |
Mathematician, Professor at the University of Helsinki, Chairman of the Peace Union of Finland |  Finland
|
Awarded 18 December 1954 | |
|
Thakin Kodaw Hmaing[11][12] (1876–1964) |
Poet |  Burma
|
Awarded 18 December 1954 | |
| Alain Le Léap[11] (1905–1986) |
Trade unionist, General Secretary of the General Confederation of Labour (1948–1957) |  France
|
Awarded 18 December 1954 | ||
|
Prijono[11][12] (1907–1969) |
Academic, politician, Minister of Culture and Education of Indonesia (1957–1966) |  Indonesia
|
Awarded 18 December 1954 | |
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Denis Pritt[11][14] (1887–1972) |
Barrister, Labour Independent Group politician, Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom for Hammersmith North (1935–1950) | United Kingdom
|
Awarded 18 December 1954 | |
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Baldomero Sanín Cano[6][11] (1861–1957) |
Essayist, linguist, journalist |  Colombia
|
Awarded 18 December 1954 | |
| 1955 | 
|
Muhammad al-Ashmar[15][16] (1892–1960) |
Rebel commander in Great Syrian Revolt and 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, Syrian Communist Party politician |  Syria
|
Awarded 9 December 1955 |
|
Lázaro Cárdenas[15][16] (1895–1970) |
Mexican Army general, Institutional Revolutionary Party politician, President of Mexico (1934–1940) | Mexico
|
Awarded 9 December 1955 | |
| Ragnar Forbech[15][16] (1894–1975) |
Priest, Chaplain of Oslo Cathedral (1947–1964) |  Norway
|
Awarded 9 December 1955 | ||
|
Seki Akiko[15][16] (1899–1973) |
Singer |  Japan
|
Awarded 9 December 1955 | |
|
Tôn Đức Thắng[15][16] (1888–1980) |
Communist Party of Vietnam politician, Chairman of the National Assembly of North Vietnam (1955–1960), President of North Vietnam (1969–1976), President of Vietnam (1976–1980) |  Vietnam
|
Awarded 9 December 1955 | |
|
Karl Joseph Wirth[15][16] (1879–1956) |
Bund der Deutschen politician, Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (1921–1922) |  West Germany
|
Awarded 9 December 1955 | |
| Unknown year (before 1953) | 
|
Martin Andersen Nexø[17] (1869–1954) |
Writer |  Denmark
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