Albania, 1957 — dissident coup conspiracy
Event Summary
The dataset records an event coded as a dissident coup conspiracy in Albania on 25 March 1957, during Enver Hoxha's consolidation of power in the post-Stalin era. After Stalin's death in 1953 and Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin, Hoxha defended Stalinism and resisted de-Stalinization while purging party moderates with pro-Soviet and pro-Yugoslav leanings, most visibly at the 1956 Tirana Party Conference. He then made a pivotal trip to Moscow in April 1957 that won cancellation of about 105 million dollars in loans and additional food aid, temporarily softening his anti-Yugoslav rhetoric.
No discrete named plot precisely on 25 March 1957 appears in accessible English sources; the entry is thin. The relevant context is Hoxha's ongoing purges of alleged internal opponents, routinely framed as conspiracies, during a period of fraught relations with both Moscow and Belgrade.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
Editorial Note
Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
33903251957
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Hoxha purged alleged internal opponents and consolidated his Stalinist rule, which lasted until 1985.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
New York Herald Tribune
New York Times
Washington Post and Times Herald
This is the citation trail carried by the baseline dataset, grouped by outlet and rejoined from the line-wrapped original. Coup Atlas has not independently re-checked every document; read the original before citing a specific claim. URLs the import damaged beyond safe repair are shown as plain text and listed in citations-report.md. How this list is built →