Lenin Peace Prize

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The Lenin Peace Prize was a Soviet-era international award given to prominent individuals worldwide for their contributions to peace and anti-imperialist solidarity.

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instanceOf Soviet state award
international peace prize
administeredIn Moscow
alsoKnownAs Lenin Peace Prize
surface form: International Lenin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Nations
awardedTo individual persons
awardFor anti-imperialist solidarity
contributions to peace
strengthening international friendship
awardingBodyType state-controlled committee
countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
dissolved 1991
field peace movement
firstAwarded 1956
frequency annual
ideologicalOrientation pro-Soviet
socialist
inception 1956
languageOfName Russian
lastAwarded 1990
namedAfter Vladimir Lenin
notableLaureate Angela Davis
Fidel Castro
Giuseppe Boffa
Ho Chi Minh
Julius Nyerere
Luis Corvalán
Mikis Theodorakis
Nelson Mandela
Pablo Neruda
Rómulo Betancourt
Salvador Allende
Samora Machel
Seán MacBride
W. E. B. Du Bois
Yasser Arafat
politicalContext Cold War
presentedBy Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
relatedTo Nobel Peace Prize
World Peace Council
replaces Lenin Peace Prize self-linksurface differs
surface form: Stalin Peace Prize
selectionCriteria activities against imperialism
promotion of national liberation movements
support for Soviet peace policy
status discontinued
symbolizes Soviet commitment to world peace
support for anti-colonial struggles

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Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto awardReceived Lenin Peace Prize
this entity surface form: Stalin Peace Prize
Sam Nujoma awardReceived Lenin Peace Prize
Μίκης Θεοδωράκης βραβεύτηκε με Lenin Peace Prize
this entity surface form: Βραβείο Λένιν για την Ειρήνη