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51. Operation Bagration
52. Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago Is Published
53. Prolonged Worldwide Droughts Result in Famines
54. Riots in Kazakhstan
55. Russo-Finnish War
56. Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Is Condemned
57. Siege of Leningrad
58. Socialist Realism Is Mandated in Soviet Literature
59. Solzhenitsyn Is Expelled from the Soviet Union
60. Soviet Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Undergoes Meltdown
61. Soviet Citizen Group Investigates Political Abuses of Psychiatry
62. Soviet Farmers are Given Control of Land and Selection of Crops
63. Soviet Intellectuals Express Disagreement with Party Policy
64. Soviet Jews Demand Cultural and Religious Rights
65. Soviet Jews Resist Oppression
66. The Soviet Luna 9 Makes the First Successful Lunar Soft Landing
67. Soviet Nuclear Submarine Sinks in the Atlantic
68. The Soviet Parliament Allows Private Ownership
69. A Soviet Power Plant Begins an Era of Nuclear Energy
70. The Soviet Union Adopts Measures to Reduce Air Pollution
71. The Soviet Union Bans Abstract Art
72. The Soviet Union Completes Its First Nuclear Power Plant
73. The Soviet Union Declares Lake Baikal a Protected Zone
74. Soviet Union Dissolves into Loosely Allied Republics
75. Soviet Union Expels Solzhenitsyn
76. Soviet Union Launches First Five-Year Plan
77. Soviet Union Launches Sputnik
78. The Soviet Union Opens a Tidal Power Station
79. The Soviet Union Passes Environmental Legislation
80. Soviet Union Puts a Human in Space
81. Soviet Union’s Dissolution
82. Soviet Venera Spacecraft Transmit the First Pictures from the Surface of Venus
83. Soviets Adopt Stalin’s Plan for the Transformation of Nature
84. Soviets Begin Construction of Siberian Gas Pipeline
85. Soviets Crack Down on Moscow’s Helsinki Watch Group
86. Soviets Establish a Society for the Protection of Nature
87. Soviets Massacre Polish Prisoners of War
88. Soviets Take Control of Eastern Europe
89. The Soyuz 4 and 5 Spacecraft Dock in Orbit
90. Stalin Begins Purging Political Opponents
91. Stalin Begins the Purge Trials
92. Stalin Nearly Destroys Russian Orthodox Church
93. Stalin Restricts Soviet Composers
94. Stand at Stalingrad
95. START II Is Signed
96. Supreme Soviet Declares the Aral Sea a Disaster Area
97. Trotsky Is Sent into Exile
98. U-2 Incident
99. U.S.S.R. Toppled, Paving the Way for Reforms in Former Soviet Republics
100. Venera 3 Is the First Spacecraft to Impact on Another Planet