CHRONOLOGY - Russia: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present - page 428

1962
(June) Demonstrators killed in Novocherkassk.
(October) Cuban Missile Crisis.
(November) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn published.

1967
(June) U.S.-Soviet summit conference at Glass-
boro, N.J.
Yuri Andropov becomes head of the KGB.
Outer Space Treaty.
Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defects to
the West.
Fiftieth anniversary of the October Revolution.

1963
Bad harvest (food shortages in cities).
(July) Nuclear test-ban treaty among United
States, USSR, and Britain.
U.S.-USSR “hot line” established.
Sino-Soviet split deepens.
Central Committee Conference on Ideology;
Ehrenburg, Yevtushenko, and others attacked
for nonconformity.
Founding of Taganka Theater (Moscow).

1968
Censorship again tightened. Andrei Tarkovsky's
film Andrei Rublev is not released because of its
“negative” view of history.
“Prague Spring” begins in Czechoslovakia, with
attempts to establish “communism with a
human face.”
Moscow-New York commercial airline service
established.
(April) First appearance of A Chronicle of Current
Events , journal of the emerging dissident
movement.
(July) Renowned physicist Andrei Sakharov
publishes Thoughts on Progress, Peaceful Coexis-
tence and Intellectual Freedom.
Nuclear nonproliferation treaty signed by United
States and USSR.
(August) Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia,
led by Soviet troops, ends “Prague Spring”
experiment.
(November) Brezhnev Doctrine is proclaimed
justifying Soviet Union's right to intervene in
Soviet-bloc countries to defend socialism.

1964
(February) Poet Joseph Brodsky tried on charges
of “parasitism.”
(October) Nikita Khrushchev removed from
power; replaced by collective leadership led
by Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin.

1965
Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonev becomes first
man to walk in space.
Demonstrations in Moscow against U.S. air raids
over North Vietnam.
Mikhail Sholokhov wins Nobel Prize in literature.
(September) Economic decentralization plan
adopted by Communist Party Central Com-
mittee.

1969
(March) Soviet-Chinese skirmishes along Amur-
Ussuri River border.
Preliminary round of SALT talks.

1966
Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita , written
in 1940, finally published in Soviet Union.
Treaty of Friendship between USSR and Mongolia.
(January) Tashkent Conference.
(February) Sinyavsky-Daniel trial (for publish-
ing abroad).
(March-April) Twenty-third Party Congress.

1970
Treaty of Friendship between USSR and Czecho-
slovakia.
Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance with
Finland extended for 20 years.
USSR and West Germany sign Treaty of Renun-
ciation of Force.
(September) Soviet unmanned lunar landing.

1966-1970
Eighth Five-Year Plan.