Stalin's death, Churchill's farewell to public life, Hillary and Tensing on Everest, Quemoy and Matsu -- all subjects for a noble anger or an accolade.

After Stalin's death, Lithuanian exiles from the nearby settlements moved in

Since Stalin's death, relations between Mao-controlled China and the Soviet Union had been lukewarm at best.

By Stalin's death in 1953, the Central Committee had become largely a symbolic organ, which was responsible to the Politburo, and not the other way around.

* The Cold Summer of 1953 ( 1987 ) about criminals being released from the gulags after Stalin's death.

Just days before Stalin's death, certain religious sects were outlawed and persecuted.

Vovsi was released by Beria after Stalin's death in 1953, as was his son-in-law, the composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg.

His major defining work after Stalin's death, the Critique de la raison dialectique ( Critique of Dialectical Reason ), appeared in 1960 ( a second volume appearing posthumously ).

After Stalin's death Tito rejected the USSR's invitation for a visit to discuss normalization of relations between two nations.

His conclusions were seen as a criticism of Joseph Stalin's intentions for the Soviet economy: as a result he was sentenced to the Soviet Gulag and later received the death penalty in 1938.

Voroshilov, Malenkov, and Khrushchev brought about 26 June 1953 arrest of Lavrenty Beria after Stalin's death.

Beria's overconfidence in his position after Stalin's death led him to misjudge the feelings of his associates, many of whom still had relatives in his prisons.

Days after Stalin's death on 5 March, Beria freed all the arrested doctors, announced that the entire matter was fabricated, and arrested the MGB functionaries directly involved.

Shortly after Stalin's death, he announced triumphantly to the Politburo that he had " done in " and " saved all ", according to Molotov's memoirs.

After Stalin's death from pulmonary edema brought on by the stroke, Beria's ambitions sprang into full force.

Before Stalin's death, Beria was appointed First Deputy Premier and reappointed head of the MVD, which he merged with the MGB.

Initially a supporter of Joseph Stalin after Vladimir Lenin's death, he came to oppose a large number of Stalin's policies and was one of Stalin's most prominent victims during the " Moscow Trials " and purges of the Old Bolsheviks in the late 1930s.

The note was found still in Stalin's desk after his death in 1953.

This tendency decreased to some extent after Stalin's death, though in practice the Politburo remained a self-perpetuating body whose decisions de facto had the force of law.

After Stalin's death and a short period of collective rule, new leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced the cult of personality of Stalin and launched the policy of de-Stalinization.

She was sentenced to 20 years, but was eventually released after Stalin's death in 1953 and in 1974 left the Soviet Union.

After Stalin's death in 1953, his successor Nikita Khrushchev repudiated his policies, condemned Stalin's cult of personality in his Secret Speech to the Twentieth Party Congress in 1956, and instituted destalinisation and relative liberalisation ( within the same political framework ).

Stalin's emphasis on the importance of political and economic work led to another wave of reorganisation of the Central Committee departments in the late-1930s and 1940s.

Beria's fall also led to criticism of Stalin ; the party leadership accused Beria of using Stalin, a sick and old man, to force his own will on the Soviet Union during Stalin's last days.

The Soviet orthodox Marxist tradition, influential for half a century, based itself on Joseph Stalin's pamphlet Dialectical and Historical Materialism and on textbooks issued by the " Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ".

Stalin and his regime have been condemned on numerous occasions, the most significant being the in 1956, when Stalin's successor Nikita Khrushchev denounced his legacy and initiated a process of de-Stalinization.

It followed on the heels of the 1952 show trials of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and the secret execution of thirteen members on Stalin's orders in the Night of the Murdered Poets.

Fewer than a third of all Russians regarded Stalin as a " murderous tyrant "; however, a Russian court in 2009, ruling on a suit by Stalin's grandson, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, against the newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, ruled that referring to Stalin as a " bloodthirsty cannibal " was not libel.

In a Kremlin video blog posted on 29 October 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev denounced the efforts of people seeking to rehabilitate Stalin's image.

* 1937 – In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.

The event was significant not only for Yugoslavia and Tito, but also for the global development of socialism, since it was the first major split between Communist states, casting doubt on Comintern's claims for socialism to be a unified force that would eventually control the whole world, as Tito became the first ( and the only successful ) socialist leader to defy Stalin's leadership in the COMINFORM.

His activities were moderated only by Joseph Stalin's fears that he was secretly on Britain's side.

When the leadership gathered at Stalin's dacha at Kuntsevo Stalin shouted at Voroshilov who replied in kind, blaming the failure on Stalin for killing the Red Army's best generals in his purges.

* Alexei Kojevnikov, Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists ( Imperial College Press, 2004 ), ISBN 1-86094-420-5 ( discusses use of Fuchs's passed on information by Soviets, based on now-declassified files )

Gottwald died on 14 March 1953, just five days after attending Stalin's funeral in Moscow on 9 March.

He was assassinated on Stalin's orders in Mexico, by Ramón Mercader, a Spanish-born Soviet agent.

In the following months, Abakumov started carrying out important operations without consulting Beria, often working in tandem with Zhdanov, and sometimes on Stalin's direct orders.

It is alleged that at this time on Stalin's orders the MGB started to prepare to deport all Soviet Jews to the Russian Far East or even massacre them.

They arrived at Stalin's dacha at Kuntsevo at 3am on March 2 after being called by Khrushchev and Bulganin.

Beria's decision to avoid immediately calling a doctor was silently supported ( or at least not opposed ) by the rest of the Politburo, which was rudderless without Stalin's micromanagement and paralyzed by a legitimate fear he would suddenly recover and wreak violent reprisal on anyone who had dared to act without his orders.

* Avtorkhanov, Abdurahman, The Mystery of Stalin's Death, Novyi Mir, # 5, 1991, pp. 194 – 233 ( in Russian )

Georgy Malenkov, Stalin's successor in the post of Premier, reappointed Molotov as Minister of Foreign Affairs on 5 March 1953.

Malenkov's ambitions and crafty politics bore fruit upon Stalin's death on 5 March 1953.

On 5 March 1953, the day of Joseph Stalin's death, he proposed to his first wife Regina Meri, saying " Let us remember this happy day forever.

The denial of the existence of Lenin's testament remained one of the cornerstones of Soviet historiography until Stalin's death on March 5, 1953.

Stalin's death on March 5, 1953 unleashed a new struggle for succession to the leadership of the party and the country.

* After Joseph Stalin's death on March 5, construction work ceases on the ill-fated Salekhard-Igarka Railway in Siberian Arctic.

Edward Osóbka-Morawski ( October 5, 1909 – January 9, 1997 ) was a Polish activist in PPS before World War II, and after the Soviet takover of Poland, Chairman of the Communist interim government called the Polish Committee of National Liberation ( Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego ) formed in Lublin with Stalin's approval and backing.

One well known example is Joseph Stalin's manipulation of a photograph from May 5, 1920 on which Stalin's predecessor Lenin held a speech for Soviet troops that Leon Trotsky attended.