Timeline Thursday 5 March 1953

Events on Thursday 5 March 1953 5

• 1878 – 1953 Joseph Stalin Soviet dictator — industrialisation and terror Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (December 18, 1878 – March 5, 1953) was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. He transformed the USSR into an industrial superpower through collectivisation and Five Year Plans, but at the cost of millions of lives in the Great Purge and gulag system.
• 1878 – 1953 Stalin Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death, overseeing rapid industrialisation and the brutal Great Purge.
• 1891 – 1953 Sergei Prokofiev Soviet modernist composer Russian composer of Peter and the Wolf, Romeo and Juliet ballet, and five piano concertos. A titan of Soviet music who walked the line between modernism and accessibility.
• 1924 – 1953 Stalin in power Soviet dictator — 1924 to 1953 Stalin consolidated power gradually after Lenin's death, becoming undisputed leader by the late 1920s. His 29-year rule transformed the USSR through forced industrialisation and collectivisation, but also brought the Great Terror, the Gulag and an estimated 6-20 million deaths from political repression.
• 1953 – 1964 Khrushchev in power De-Stalinisation and the Space Race — 1953 to 1964 Khrushchev emerged as Soviet leader after Stalin's death in 1953. He denounced Stalin in his 1956 "Secret Speech", launched Sputnik and Gagarin into space, built the Berlin Wall, and nearly brought the world to nuclear war in the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was deposed in a bloodless coup in October 1964.