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U.S.-Soviet Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.
U.S.-USSR cultural exchange.
Celebration of centenary of Lenin's birth.
Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn.
(December) Elena Bonner accepts the Nobel
Peace Prize on behalf of her husband, physi-
cist Andrei Sakharov.
1976
Helsinki Watch Groups formed in Russian
Republic, Armenia, Georgia, Lithuania, and
the Ukraine.
Twenty-fifth Party Congress.
1970-1971
SALT talks.
1971
(February) Khrushchev dies.
Mars 3 makes soft landing on moon.
(March-April) Twenty-fourth Party Congress.
1976-1980
Tenth Five-Year Plan.
1977
(June) Brezhnev elected president of USSR
Supreme Soviet.
(October) “Brezhnev Constitution,” fourth con-
stitution in Soviet era, is approved.
Bulgakov's Master and Margarita staged at Taganka
Theater.
1971-1975
Ninth Five-Year Plan.
1972
Renewed inflexibility with regard to policy on
nationalities.
(May) Nixon-Brezhnev summit conference in
Moscow; SALT treaties signed.
Restrictions on Jewish emigration; Jackson-
Vanik amendment.
(June) Large-scale Soviet grain purchases from
United States.
1978
Demonstrations in the Caucasus over Kremlin
attempts to weaken the use of native lan-
guages.
Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Speech.
1973
Brezhnev-Nixon summit in the United States.
1979
Census establishes Soviet population at 265 mil-
lion.
(April) Formal cancellation of Soviet-Chinese
alliance.
(June) SALT II signed by U.S. president Jimmy
Carter and Brezhnev (not ratified).
(December) Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Gorbachev made candidate member of Polit-
buro.
1974
(February) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn expelled
from USSR after publication of Gulag Archi-
pelago in the West.
(June-July) Nixon and Brezhnev hold summit
in Moscow.
First section of the Baikal-Amur Magistral rail-
road is completed.
(November) Ford-Brezhnev summit conference
in Vladivostok.
1980
(January) United States declares boycott of Sum-
mer Olympic Games in Moscow and imposes
grain embargo.
(January) Sakharov exiled to Gorky (Nizhnii
Novgorod), a closed city on the Volga.
1975
(July) Joint space project (“Soyuz”) with United
States.
(July-August) Helsinki Security Conference.
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