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| 1951 |
| | | The British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean escape to the Soviet Union just ahead of their detection and arrest | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Joseph Stalin dies, four days after suffering a stroke | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Dmitry Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony has its first performance in Leningrad nine months after the death of Stalin | |
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| 1953 |
| | | The first Soviet hydrogen bomb is successfully tested at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Secret-police chief Lavrenti Beria is executed by the new Soviet regime | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Russia forms the Warsaw Treaty Organization (or Warsaw Pact) with her east European allies, as a counterbalance to NATO | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Konrad Adenauer negotiates the release of the last 10,000 German prisoners of war held in the USSR | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Nikita Khrushchev denounces Stalin, dead now for three years, at a party congress in the USSR | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Russian dancer Galina Ulanova proves a sensation on tour in Europe and the USA in her late forties | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The ballet Spartacus, with music by Aram Khachaturian, has its premiere in Leningrad | |
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