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  Lenin
Lenin was deeply influenced by the revolutionary political views of his older brother, Alexander Ulyanov, who introduced him to the ideas of Karl Marx.
Lenin agreed and on the evening of 24th October, 1917, orders were given for the Bolsheviks began to occupy the railway stations, the telephone exchange and the State Bank.
Lenin himself was considered a man of robust health, and this health seemed to be one of the indestructible pillars of the revolution.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RUSlenin.htm   (7467 words)

  
 Nobel Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nobel Prizes are prizes instituted by the will of Alfred Nobel, awarded to people (and also to organizations in the case of the Nobel Peace Prize) who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society.
The peace prize ceremony was held at the Norwegian Nobel Institute from 1905 until 1946, later at the Aula of the University of Oslo, and since 1990 at the Oslo City Hall.
For example, in 2002, a Prize was awarded to Koichi Tanaka and John Fenn for the development of mass spectrometry in protein chemistry, failing to recognise the achievements of Franz Hillenkamp and Michael Karas of the Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Frankfurt.
www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Nobel_Prize   (2848 words)

  
 English Nobel Peace Prize
The Peace Prize is awarded annually in Oslo, the capital of Norway, unlike the prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine and literature, which are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden.
The parliament of Norway is responsible for appointing the Peace Prize committee.
The scientific and literature Nobel prizes are usually issued in retrospect, often two or three decades after the intellectual achievement, thus representing a time-proven confirmation and balance of approval by the established academic community, seldom contradicted by newer developments.
articles.gourt.com /?article=Nobel+Peace+Prize   (2229 words)

  
 HISTORY DOOMS IMPERIALISTS by Fidel Castro : LA IMC
To denounce and unmask the warmongers is to defend peace.
The Lenin prize reminds us that other peoples have had to pay a greater tribute than we have been paying to imperialism in our effort to be free.
Socialism meant peace, bread, and land against imperialism, and the imperialist war, against the hunger of peasants who were sent to die in trenches to defend the privilege of aristocratic classes that plundered the nations and peoples.
la.indymedia.org /print.php?id=8435   (4691 words)

  
 Lenin Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lenin Prize (Russian: Ленинская премия) was one of the highest awards in the Soviet Union.
In the period from 1935 to 1956, the Lenin Prize was not awarded.
The Lenin Prize is different from the Lenin Peace Prize, which was awarded to foreign citizens rather than to citizens of the Soviet Union, for their contributions to the "peace cause." Also, the Lenin prize should not be confused with the USSR State Prize or the Stalin Prize.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lenin_Prize   (277 words)

  
 1995 Nobel Peace Prize - An Essay by Irwin Abrams
THE 1995 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR JOSEPH ROTBLAT
He was a founder and now president of the organization established in 1957 on the initiative of Bertrand Russell, the eminent British philosopher, mathematician and social reformer, who proposed that scientists should take responsibility for the nuclear weapons which science had produced and work toward their elimination before these weapons destroyed civilization.
He declined the International Peace Prize offered him by the pro-Soviet World Council of Peace, and he, Rotblat and others resisted the suggestion from Cyrus Eaton that the Pugwash organization support the appeal by Premier Nikita Khruschev to the United Nations for universal disarmament.
www.irwinabrams.com /books/excerpts/annual95.html   (2690 words)

  
 The Nobel Peace Prize: Revelations from the Soviet Past   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
When leading human rights activist and political dissident Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975, Soviet authorities became furious and claimed that the decision was an unfriendly act orchestrated by reactionary forces who only wanted to see a revival of the Cold War.
The news that President Mikhail Gorbachev had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 was received with scepticism, embarrassment and fury in wide circles within the Communist Party.
When he abolished the Stalin Peace Prize in 1956, that was part of his de-Stalinization campaign, not a signal to end the ideological competition with the Nobel Peace Prize.
nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/peace/articles/njolstad/index.html   (3825 words)

  
 The Soviet Union
Lenin and Trotsky's oppression became ferocious as the cities ran out of food due to the collapse of the economy, caused by themselves and their stupid Marxist ideas.
The hate-filled mass murderer Lenin, with his rage against everyone decent in society, his drive to kill and destroy everything that generations of tolerant and hard-working people had built, and his staggering barbarism, set the tone for every communist regime that followed in the world.
Shame on Fremont for its tribute to Lenin - The statue is a monumental symbol of the moral sickness of the western left.
markhumphrys.com /soviet.html   (5083 words)

  
 Pauling Centenary Celebration - Multimedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, Nobel Prize for Peace for 1962, Medal, Certificate, December 10, 1963.
The medal of the Norwegian Nobel Committee-- for the peace prize--represents a group of three men forming a fraternal bond.
The Norwegian medal has the inscription "Pro pace et fraternitatet gentium," which means "For peace and fraternization between the peoples." The medal is designed by Gustav Vigeland.
pauling.library.oregonstate.edu /medals-nobelpeace.htm   (83 words)

  
 Lenin Peace Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was awarded by an international panel appointed by the Soviet government to notable individuals who the panel felt had "strengthened peace among peoples".
Following Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union held in 1956, on September 6 the prize was renamed the International Lenin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples.
In some cases in GSE's 3rd edition the year is that, "in which" the Prize was awarded, in other cases - "for which".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lenin_Peace_Prize   (655 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Beware this 'peace movement'
Barbara Lee, D-Calif., the darling of the new "peace movement," has introduced a resolution calling for the U.S. to work with the United Nations rather than take on Iraq in the war on terrorism.
Until 1956, the Lenin Prize was called "the Stalin Stipend." The name was changed only after Nikita Khruschev denounced mass murderer Josef Stalin at the 20th Party Congress in Moscow.
The prize was established in 1928 as the socialist rival to the Nobel Prize and paid its recipients amounts ranging from 50,000 to 100,000 rubles.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29111   (852 words)

  
 Linus Pauling and the Peace Movement - p. 8 of 8
I was harassed, of course, in a less blatant way when my passport was refused at the time that the Royal Society of London had arranged a conference of scientists, a two day symposium, on the biochemistry of DNA, and on my ideas.
If you look back at your involvement in the peace movement and your experiences in politics, are there any lessons that you learned about things that you would have done differently, or things that you think you did right that show an example for people presently involved in the movement?
Well, one problem that my wife and I experienced in the peace movement 25 or 30 years ago, is that of difficulty in cooperation.
globetrotter.berkeley.edu /conversations/Pauling/pauling8.html   (1305 words)

  
 PeaceGrpGloss
In 1979, in cooperation with the Members of Congress for Peace Through Law Education Fund, CDI financed a 27-minute film, "War Without Winners", to promote the disarmament lobby's claim that "there is no defense against nuclear war," on which basis they also oppose civil defense programs, anti-ballistic missile defenses and development of satellite-based beam weapons.
U.S. Peace Council (USPC)-7 E. 15th Street, Room 408, New York, N.Y. 10003 [212/989-1194], was launched as the official U.S. national section of the WPC at a November 1979 conference in Philadelphia.
Women Strike for Peace (WSP)- 145 S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA. 19107 [215/923-0861), was founded in 1961 as a "national movement of women against the arms race and for the fulfillment of human needs." Virtually its first act was to assign CPUSA member Selma Rein to arrange WSP's affiliation with the WIDF.
www.knology.net /~bilrum/PeaceGrpGloss.htm   (8849 words)

  
 Nobel Peace Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nobel Peace Prize is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequested by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.
The Peace Prize is awarded annually in Oslo, the capital of Norway, unlike the prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and literature, which are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
For the past decade, the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony at the Oslo City Hall has been followed the next day by the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, which is broadcast to over 150 countries and more than 450 million households around the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nobel_peace_prize   (2309 words)

  
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Recipient of the Lenin “Peace Prize” from the police state of East Germany.
In 1979 Davis was awarded the Intenational Lenin Peace Prize (formerly named the International Stalin Peace Prize) and was also honored by the East German police state.
The Soviet government appointed a panel which awarded the Lenin prize annually to individuals who had “strengthened peace among peoples” by advancing the agendas of the Kremlin and its totalitarian regime.
www.discoverthenetwork.org /printindividualProfile.asp?indid=1303   (1404 words)

  
 "Moscow and the Peace, Offensive"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Peace and disarmament are issues of natural agreement between the Soviet Union and the vast majority of Western Europe's communist parties because of the latteys' anti-military stance Forgery, Disinformation and Political Operations I Department of State Bulletin, Vol.
The culmination of the Soviet Union's 1981 propaganda efforts was the spectacle of massive national peace demonstrations in European capitals in the fall.
Exploiting this ignorance are peace groups on both sides of the Atlantic, which have established firm ties with leaders of the Protestant and Catholic churches and are laying the groundwork for grass-roots campaigns against American nuclear weapons.
www.heritage.org /Research/RussiaandEurasia/bg184.cfm   (6928 words)

  
 Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> Don't use force to resolve Iraq issue: Namibia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bangalore: Namibian President Dr Sam Nujoma said on February 28 the Iraq crisis must be resolved through peaceful means and not by force.
That was the collective stand in Kuala Lumpur during the (recent) Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit," he said when asked if he believed if the US and Britain are "going too far" on the issue.
The Namibian leader was responding to reporters' question at the airport in Bangalore on his arrival on a two-day visit.
news.indiainfo.com /2003/02/28/28namibia.html   (204 words)

  
 IAEA, ElBaradei Share Nobel Peace Prize
The prize, announced Friday, went to the two "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way."
The "Peace Prize" is a mark of shame and dishonor -- it seems to mean nothing less than a person who loves mass murder.
remember the "lenin peace prize" disappeared with the fall of the USSR, and the nobel peace prize has now become the most coveted award by those who seek to advance the cause of world socialism...
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1498235/posts   (700 words)

  
 W. E. B. Du Bois Dies in Ghana; Negro Leader and Author, 95
The center was the sponsor in this country for the so-called Stockholm Peace Petition, a movement characterized by the Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, as Communist-inspired.
Du Bois and other officers of the center were indicted by a Federal grand jury on a charge of failing to register as foreign agents.
In 1952, he received a Grand International Prize valued at $7,000 from the World Peace Council, headed by the French scientist Frederic Joliot-Curie.
partners.nytimes.com /books/00/11/05/specials/dubois-obit.html   (1007 words)

  
 .: Corvallis Gazette-Times :. Archives
However, he did not own slaves, and the extent to which he supported slavery and the consequences of his support remain under study.
The lingering opposition against Linus Pauling because the Soviet Union awarded him the Lenin Peace Prize in 1970 amounts to a speck in Pauling's luminous career.
Overshadowing his pacifism and even the much-vaunted 1954 Nobel Prize for chemistry and 1962 Nobel Peace Prize were his contributions to humanity.
www.gazettetimes.com /articles/2004/01/19/news/opinion/1ed19.txt   (380 words)

  
 Burhop E H S Eric Henry Stoneley Papers. AIP International Catalog of Sources
He worked on the Manhattan Project USA 1944-1950, won the Lenin Peace Prize 1972 and was President, World Federation of Scientific Workers 1971-1980.
The biographical material principally relates to the 'passport case' when the Foreign Office withdrew Burhop's passport on the eve of a visit to the Soviet Union in 1951 and the award of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1972.
There is also a little correspondence in 1957 on the possible nomination of Bertrand Russell for the World Peace Council's International Peace Prize.
www.aip.org /history/catalog/icos/3490.html   (219 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Pablo Neruda - Books: Meet the Writers
When presenting the legendary Chilean poet Pablo Neruda with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, Karl Ragnar Gierow of the Swedish Academy proclaimed, "Neruda is like catching a condor with a butterfly net.
Neruda, in a nutshell, is an unreasonable proposition: the kernel bursts the shell."
International Peace Prize, 1950; Stalin Peace Prize, 1953; Lenin Peace Prize, 1953; Nobel Prize for Literature, 1971
www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cds2Pid=6474&cid=42357&linkid=309019   (413 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: The truth about Barbara Lee
Lee was nominated by the international organization 1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize, an effort "to publicize the wealth of strategies, procedures for conflict resolution and methods of negotiation that women all over the world develop in order to deal with the various socio-political issues and problems in their respective regions."
Lee has always explained that she represents a district that is committed to "peace and justice" and does her best to promote those values.
Until 1956, the Lenin Prize was called the Stalin Stipend.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45321   (1134 words)

  
 50 years since Suez - Indymedia Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
And Israel still hasn't learned that it must make permanent peace with its neighbours and stop looking for a military solution to what is a political problem.
Sean MacBride of course was a founding member of Amnesty International, and the only person to win both a Nobel Peace prize and the Lenin Peace Prize.
50 years on, the world is a bit befuddled about how to patch a peace keeping mission (be it UN or NATO or even lack of constitution forbid "EU") to keep peace.
www.indymedia.ie /article/77504   (1405 words)

  
 Seán MacBride - Curriculum Vitae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Consultant to the Pontifical Commission on Justice and Peace.
Vice-Chairman, Congress of World Peace Forces (Moscow, October 1973).
This CV was first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel.
nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1974/macbride-cv.html   (253 words)

  
 The Quotable Woman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
She was a fierce advocate for peace and women's rights, and became a prominent national crusader against poverty, racism, and violence in America.
She was appointed many important posts, was one of the signatories of the proclamation of the independence of Israel on May 14, 1948, and, in 1969, became Israel's fourth prime minister, a position she held until 1974, when she stepped down.
Particularly remembered for her eloquent appeals for peace at the United Nations and her country-saving fund-raising efforts in the United States, Meir has acquired folk-hero status, and is ingrained in the public's imagination as a bobe figure who rose to greatness in her nation's hour of need.
www.thequotablewoman.com /audiovideo.htm   (5087 words)

  
 RRI Digital Repository: Item 2289/125
Lenin peace prize for Dr. Raman : Presentation at the Kremlin
RP 5.125; C.V. Raman; International Lenin Peace Prize for 1956
The International Lenin Peace Prize for 1956 was presented to Sir.
hdl.handle.net /2289/125   (64 words)

  
 RIA Novosti - Culture - Greek composer receives the International St. Andrew the First Called Prize
According to the Foundation's officials, the award ceremony will be held on July 30 on Crete Island during the celebrations to mark the composer's 80th birthday.
The international St. Andrew the First Called Prize is a non-governmental, non-party, non-church and non-political award.
In 1983, he was awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize.
en.rian.ru /culture/20050731/41062116.html   (340 words)

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