Stalin Peace Prize: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

The Stalin Peace Prize (renamed the Lenin Peace Prize as a result of destalinization) was the Soviet Union's answer to the Nobel Peace Prize. It was awarded by an international panel appointed by the Soviet government to individuals who it felt had "strengthened peace among peoples". Unlike the Nobel Peace Prize the Stalin and Lenin Prizes were awarded to multiple recipients in any given year. It is apparently still being awarded by the Russian government.

List of recipients

• Halldór Laxness
• Pablo Picasso (1950)
• Frédéric Joliot (1951)
• Anna Seghers (1951)
• Hewlett Johnson (1951)
• Soong Ching-ling (1951)
• Martin Anderson Nexo
• A. A. Fadyeev
• Rev. James Endicott (1953)
• Eliza Branco (1953)
• Johannes Becher (1953)
• Sayfuddin Kichloo (1953)
• Ilya Ehrenburg (1953)
• Yves Farge (1953)
• Pablo Neruda (1953)
• Paul Robeson (1953)
• John Desmond Bernal (1953)
• Michael Sadovyany
• Leon Kruczkowski (1953)
• Nina Vasilevna Popova (1953)
• Andrea Andreen (1953)
• Isabelle Blume (1953)
• Andrew Gaggiero (1953)
• Sir Sahib-singh Sokhey (1953)
• Howard Fast (1953)
• Leon Kruczkowski (1953)
• Saifuddin Kitchlew (1954)
• Bertolt Brecht (1954)
• Joseph Wirth (1954)
• Danilo Dolci (1958)
• W.E.B. DuBois (1959)
• Cyrus Eaton (1960)
• Fidel Castro (1961)
• Jorge Amado de Faria (1962)
• Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1962)
• Nelson Mandela (1962)
• Kwame Nkrumah (1962)
• Olga Poblete de Espinosa (1962)
• Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1962)
• Istvan Dobi (1962)
• Oscar Niemeyer (1963)
• Dolores Ibárruri (1964)
• Miguel Ángel Asturias (1966)
• Linus Pauling (1967)
• Carlton Goodlett (1970)
• Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop (1972)
• Sam Nujoma (1973)
• Seán MacBride (1977)
• Angela Davis (1979)
• Mahmoud Darwish (1983)
• Dorothy Hodgkin (1987)
• Lady Valerie Goulding
• Martti Ahtisaari
• Nelson Mandela (2002)