Sunday, March 1, 1953 – The New York Times Front Page
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Monday, March 2, 1953
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Tuesday, March 3, 1953
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Wednesday, March 4, 1953
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STALIN GRAVELY ILL AFTER A STROKE
PARTLY PARALYZED AND UNCONSCIOUS
MOSCOW DISCLOSES CONCERN FOR HIM
USE OF LIMBS LOST
MOSCOW, Wednesday, March 4 — The Government announced shortly before 8 A. M. today [Tuesday midnight, Eastern standard time] that Premier Stalin had suffered a brain hemorrhage Sunday night with paralysis of the right hand and leg, loss of speech and loss of consciousness.
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Thursday, March 5, 1953
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STALIN’S CONDITION BECOMES WORSE
HIS ASSOCIATES DIRECT GOVERNMENT
EISENHOWER AND EDEN MEET HASTILY
PREMIER IS FAILING Doctors Report Relapse Despite Their Efforts to Prolong Life SECOND BULLETIN GLOOMY Old Comrades of Soviet Chief Take Control of Regime — Churches Join in Prayer
MOSCOW, Thursday, March 5 — Physicians fighting for Premier Stalin’s life used leeches, oxygen and special drugs in the last twenty-four hours, but a special bulletin told crowds waiting in Moscow’s falling snow and cold that their leader continued to sink.
Friday, March 6, 1953
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STALIN DIES AFTER 29-YEAR RULE;
HIS SUCCESSOR NOT ANNOUNCED;
U. S. WATCHFUL, EISENHOWER SAYS
Announcement of Death Made by Top Soviet and Party Chiefs
MOSCOW, Friday, March 6 — Premier Joseph Stalin died at 9:50 P. M. yesterday [1:50 P. M. Thursday, Eastern standard time] in the Kremlin at the age of 73, it was announced officially this morning. He had been in power twenty-nine years.
Saturday, March 7, 1953
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Sunday, March 8, 1953
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Monday, March 9, 1953
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Tuesday, March 10, 1953
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Wednesday, March 11, 1953
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Thursday, March 12, 1953
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Friday, March 13, 1953
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Saturday, March 14, 1953
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Sunday, March 15, 1953
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Monday, March 16, 1953
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Tuesday, March 17, 1953
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Wednesday, March 18, 1953
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Thursday, March 19, 1953
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Friday, March 20, 1953
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Saturday, March 21, 1953
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MALENKOV GIVES UP A TOP PARTY POST
KHRUSHCHEV NAMED
Premier Yields His Secretariat Position but Retains Job in Communist Presidium FIVE-MAN GROUP CHOSEN Dulles Says U. S. Received No ‘Great Comfort’ From Peace Overtures by Moscow MALENKOV YIELDS A TOP PARTY POST
MOSCOW, Saturday, March 21 — Premier Georgi M. Malenkov has relinquished, at his own request, his post as a secretary of the Communist party, and a plenary meeting of the party’s Central Committee has elected a new five-member Secretariat.
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Directorate Held Ruling
The announcement that Premier Malenkov is now no longer a secretary of the Communist party appears to be the strongest evidence yet available that he has not fully inherited the power held by Stalin, and that the Soviet Union is ruled today by a group of leaders rather than by Mr. Malenkov alone.
Sunday, March 22, 1953
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Monday, March 23, 1953
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Tuesday, March 24, 1953
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Wednesday, March 25, 1953
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Thursday, March 26, 1953
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Friday, March 27, 1953
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Saturday, March 28, 1953
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Sunday, March 29, 1953
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Monday, March 30, 1953
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Einstein Offers New Theory To Unify Laws of the Cosmos
EINSTEIN DEVISES A UNIFIED THEORY
Albert Einstein, named by George Bernard Shaw as one of the eight “Universe Builders” in recorded history, has returned from a three-year sojourn on the lonely summit of his scientific Sinai with a new set of laws for the cosmos.
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Tuesday, March 31, 1953
