1879

December 9(21) Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili (Stalin) was born in Gori,

Georgia.
1888
September J. V. Stalin enters the elementary clerical school in Gori.
1894
June J. V. Stalin graduates from the Gori school with highest marks.
September 2 J. V. Stalin enters first grade of the Tiflis Theological Seminary.
1895
J. V. Stalin establishes contact with the underground groups of Russian
revolutionary Marxists who had been exiled to Transcaucasia by the tsarist government.
1896-1898
In the Theological Seminary in Tiflis J. V. Stalin conducts Marxist circles of
students, studies Capital, the Manifesto of the Communist Party, and other works of K.
Marx and F. Engels, and becomes acquainted with the early works of V. I. Lenin.
1898
January J. V. Stalin begins to conduct a workers' Marxist circle in the Central
Railway Workshops in Tiflis.
August J. V. Stalin joins the Georgian Social-Democratic organization Messameh
Dassy. J. V. Stalin, V. Z. Ketskhoveli and A. G. Tsulukidze form the core of the
revolutionary Marxist minority in the Messameh Dassy.
J. V. Stalin draws up a program of studies for Marxist workers' circles.
J. V. Stalin, V. Z. Ketskhoveli and A. G. Tsulukidze raise the question of founding
an illegal revolutionary Marxist press. This gives rise to the first sharp disagreements
between the revolutionary minority and the opportunist majority in the Messameh Dassy.
1899
May 29 J. V. Stalin is expelled from the Tiflis Theological Seminary for
propagating Marxism.
December 28 J. V. Stalin starts work at the Tiflis Physical Observatory.
1900
April 23 J. V. Stalin addresses a workers' May Day meeting in the region of Salt
Lake, on the outskirts of Tiflis.
Summer J. V. Stalin establishes contact with V. K. Kurnatovsky, a well-known
supporter of Lenin's Iskra, who had arrived in Tiflis for Party work.
August J. V. Stalin leads a mass strike at the Central Railway Workshops in Tiflis.
1898-1900
Under the leadership of J. V. Stalin, V. Z. Ketskhoveli and A. G. Tsulukidze, a
central leading group is formed within the Tiflis organization of the RSDLP, which passes
from propaganda in study circles to mass political agitation. The group organizes the
printing of manifestoes and their distribution among the workers, forms underground
Social-Democratic circles, and leads the strikes and political struggle of the Tiflis
proletariat.
1901
March 21 J. V. Stalin's lodgings at the Tiflis Physical Observatory are searched by
the police.
 March 28 J. V. Stalin leaves the Tiflis Physical Observatory and goes
underground.
April 22 J. V. Stalin leads the workers' May Day dem-onstration in the Soldatsky
Market Place, in the center of Tiflis.
September No. 1 of the illegal newspaper Brdzola, the organ of the revolutionary
wing of the Georgian Marxists published on the initiative of J. V. Stalin, appears in Baku.
The article "From the Editors," outlining the program of the newspaper which appeared
in that issue, was written by J. V. Stalin.
November 11 J. V. Stalin is elected a member of the first Tiflis Committee of the
RSDLP, which followed the Leninist-Iskra trend.
End of November The Tiflis Committee sends J. V. Stalin to Batum to form a
Social-Democratic organization there.
December No. 2-3 of Brdzola appears, containing J. V. Stalin's article "The
Russian Social-Democratic Party and Its Immediate Tasks."
J. V. Stalin establishes contact with the advanced workers in Batum and organizes
Social-Democratic circles at the Rothschild, Mantashev Sideridis, and other plants.
December 31 J. V. Stalin organizes in the guise of a New Year's party a secret
conference of representatives of Social-Democratic study circles. The conference elects a
leading group, headed by J. V. Stalin, which acted virtually as the Batum Committee of
the RSDLP of the Leninist-Iskra trend.
1902
January J. V. Stalin organizes in Batum an underground printing plant, writes
leaflets and organizes the printing and distribution of manifestoes.
January 31-February 17 J. V. Stalin organizes a strike at the Mantashev plant
which ends in the victory of the workers.
February 27-beginning of March J. V. Stalin directs the activities of the strike
committee during a strike at the Rothschild plant.
March 8 J. V. Stalin leads a demonstration of strikers who demand the release of
32 of their arrested fellow strikers.
March 9 J. V. Stalin organizes and leads a political demonstration of over 6,000
workers employed in the various plants in Batum who demand the release of 300 worker-
demonstrators arrested by the police on March 8. Outside the prison where the arrested
workers were confined, the demonstration was shot at by troops and 15 workers were
killed and 54 were injured. About 500 demonstrators were arrested. That same night J. V.
Stalin wrote a manifesto on the shooting down of the demonstrators.
March 12 J. V. Stalin leads a workers' demonstration which he had organized in
connection with the funeral of the victims of the shooting on March 9.
April 5 J. V. Stalin is arrested at a meeting of the leading Party group in Batum.
April 6 J. V. Stalin is detained in the Batum jail.
April 1902-April 19, 1903 While in Batum jail, J. V. Stalin establishes and
maintains contact with the Batnm Social-Democratic organization, directs its activities,
writes leaflets, and conducts political work among the prisoners.
1903
March The Caucasian Union of the RSDLP is formed at the First Congress of
Caucasian Social-Democratic Labor Organizations. J. V. Stalin, then confined in Batum
jail, is in his absence elected a member of the Caucasian Union Committee that was set
up at the congress.
April 19 J. V. Stalin is transferred from the Batum jail to the Kutais jail, where he
establishes contact with the other political prisoners and conducts among them
propaganda on behalf of the Leninist-Iskra ideas.
Autumn J. V. Stalin is retransferred to the Batnm jail, whence he is deported under
escort to Eastern Siberia.
November 27 J. V. Stalin arrives at the village of Novaya Uda, Balagansk Uyezd,
Irkutsk Gubernia, his place of exile.
December While in Siberia, J. V. Stalin receives a letter from V. I. Lenin.
1904

January 5 J. V. Stalin escapes from his place of exile.

February J. V. Stalin arrives in Tiflis and directs the work of the Caucasian Union
Committee of the RSDLP.
J. V. Stalin drafts the program document entitled "Credo," dealing with the
disagreements within the Party and with the organizational tasks of the Party.
June J. V. Stalin arrives in Baku where, on the instructions of the Caucasian Union
Committee, he dissolves the Menshevik committee and forms a new, Bolshevik
committee.
Summer J. V. Stalin makes a tour of the most important districts of Transcaucasia
and debates with Mensheviks, Federalists, Anarchists and others.
In Kutais, J. V. Stalin forms a Bolshevik Imeretia-Mingrelia Committee.
September 1 Proletarians Brdzola, No. 7, publishes J. V. Stalin's article "The
Social-Democratic View of the National Question."
September-October In connection with the disagreements within the Party, J V.
Stalin, while in Kutais, writes letters to the Georgian Bolsheviks abroad, expounding
Lenin's views on the combination of socialism with the working-class movement.
November J. V. Stalin arrives in Baku and leads the campaign for the convocation
of the Third Congress of the Party.
December 13-31 J. V. Stalin leads the general strike of the Baku workers.

1926

January 1 J. V. Stalin directs the work of the plenum of the Central Committee,
CPSU(B), where he speaks on organizational questions.
J. V. Stalin is elected by the plenum to the Political Bureau, Organizing Bureau
and Secretariat of the C.C., CPSU(), and appointed General Secretary of the Party.
The plenum decided to prolong J. V. Stalin's credentials as a delegate of the
CPSU(B) to the Executive Committee of the Communist International (E.G.C.I.).
January 5 J. V. Stalin informs V.M. Molotov. N.M. Shvernik, S. M. Kirov and
others in Leningrad of the resolution passed on January 5, 1926, by the C.C., CPSU (),
exposing the factional activity of the Leningrad Gubernia Committee of the CPSU().
January 8 J. V. Stalin directs a meeting of the CPSU(B) delegation to the E.C.C.I.
January 16 J. V. Stalin has a talk with representatives of the American Communist
Party delegation to the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
 January 19 J. V. Stalin has a talk with students of the Institute of Red Professors.
January 22 J. V. Stalin delivers speeches at a meeting of the Presidium of the
E.C.C.I. on "The Fight, against Right, and 'Ultra-Left' Deviations."
January 25 J. V. Stalin completes his work Concerning Questions of Leninism,
which was published as a separate pamphlet on February 6, and printed in the magazine
Bolshevik, No. 3, February 15, 1926.
February 5 J. V. Stalin has a talk with members of the Chinese Communist Party
delegation to the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
February 6-8 J. V. Stalin is elected by special Party con-ferences of the
Volodarsky, Moskovsko-Narvsky and other districts of Leningrad as their first delegate to
the Twenty-Third Special Leningrad Gubernia Conference of the G.P.S.U.(B).
February 9 J. V. Stalin replies to a letter from P. F. BoltneV. V. I. Efremov and V. I.
Ivlev on "The Peasantry as an Ally of the Working Class."
February 10 Leningradskaya Pravda, No. 33, publishes the sixth chapter-"The
Question of the Victory of Socialism in One Country"- of J. V. Stalin's work Concerning
Questions of Leninism.
J. V. Stalin replies to a letter of T. M. PokoyeV. chairman of the Poor Peasants'
Committee, Bobrinets District, Ukr. S.S.R. on "The Possibility of Building Socialism in
Our Country."
February 12 J. V. Stalin is elected by the Twenty-Third Special Leningrad
Gubernia Conference of the CPSU(B) as a member of the Leningrad Gubernia Party
Committee.
February 17-March 16 J. V. Stalin takes part. in the work of the Sixth Enlarged
Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
February 17 At the first sitting of Ihe Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I., J. V.
Stalin is elected to the Presidium of the E.C.C.I. plenum and to the Political, Eastern, and
French Commissions of the plenum.
February 19 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to the members of the delegation of the
CPSU(B) in the E.G.C.I. in which he exposes Zinoviev who distorted the decisions of the
Fourteenth Congress of the G.P.S.U.(B) when making the opening speech at the Sixth
Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
J. V. Stalin has a talk with representatives of the German and French Communist
Party delegations to the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
February 20 The Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I. elects J. V. Stalin
chairman of its German Commission.
February 21 At a meeting of the Bureau of the CPSU(B) delegation to the Sixth
Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I., J. V. Stalin reports that the German delegation is
dissatisfied with Zinoviev's speech at the plenum.
February 23 The newspaper Kommunist, No. 43, organ of the Central Committee
and Kharkov Okrug Committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), prints a
statement in memory of G. I. Kotovsky, written by J. V. Stalin.
J. V. Stalin attends a ceremonial meeting in the Bolshoi Theatre in honour of the
Eighth Anniversary of the Red Army.
February 27 Publication of J. V. Stalin's collection of writings entitled Questions
of Leninism.
 March 3 J. V. Stalin speaks at a meeting of the Bureau of the CPSU(B) delegation
to the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I. on the ideological struggle against, the
"ultra-Lefts" in the German Communist. Party,
March 6 J. V. Stalin speaks in the French Commission of the Sixth Enlarged
Plenum of the E.C.C.I. on the situation in the French Communist Party.
At a meeting of the Bureau of the CPSU(B) delegation to the Sixth Enlarged
Plenum of the E.C.C.I., J. V. Stalin opposes a proposal by Zinoviev that adherents of the
"New Opposition" should be drawn into the work of the E.C.C.I.
March 7 Pravda, No. 55, publishes greetings from J. V. Stalin to working women
and women toilers throughout the world in connection with the sixteenth celebration of
International Communist Women's Day.
March 8 At a meeting of the German Commission of the Sixth Enlarged Plenum
of the E.C.C.I., J. V. Stalin delivers a speech on the fight. against the "ultra-Lefts" in the
German Communist Party.
March 15 At a meeting of the Organizing Bureau of the C.C., CPSU(B), J. V.
Stalin delivers speeches on the plan of work of the Organizing Bureau for March-August
1926 and on the elections to the Soviets.
March 16 J. V. Stalin has a talk with representatives of the German and French
Communist Party delegations to the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
March 17 The E.C.C.I. elects J. V. Stalin a member of its Presidium.
J. V. Stalin has a talk with representatives of the German Communist Party
delegation to the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
March 23 The newspapers Pravda and Komsomolskaya Pravda, Nos. 66, print a
message of greetings by J. V. Stalin to the Seventh Congress of the All-Union Leninist
Young Communist League.
April 3 The Political Bureau of the C.C., CPSU(B) appoints J. V. Stalin a member
of the Commis-sion of the Political Bureau for drafting the theses on "The Economic
Situation and Eco-nomic Policy" to be submitted for discussion at the April plenum of the
C.C., CPSU(B).
April 5 At a meeting of the Commission of the Political Bureau of the C.C.,
CPSU(B), J. V. Stalin speaks in support of the theses on "The Economic Situation and
Economic Policy."
April 6-9 J. V. Stalin directs the work of the plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B),
April 9 At the morning sitting of the plenum ot the C.C., CPSU(B), J. V. Stalin
delivers a report on "The Economic Situation and Economic Policy."
At the evening sitting, J.V. Stalin delivers a report on "The Plan of Work of the
Political Bureau and the C.C. Plenum for 1926."
April 12 J. V. Stalin delivers a report on the results of the work of the April
plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B) at a plenum of the Leningrad Gubernia Committee of the
CPSU(B).
April 13 J. V. Stalin delivers a report on "The Economic Situation of the Soviet
Union and the Policy of the Party" at a meeting of the active of the Leningrad
organization of the CPSU(B).
April 20 J. V. Stalin has a talk with a delegation from the Stalin Factory
(Bolshevo, Moscow Gubernia), which has come to invite him to their May Day
celebration.
 April 21 J. V. Stalin replies to a letter of Klara Zetkin on the organization Workers'
International Relief (WIR).
Publication of J. V. Stalin's pamphlet The Economic Situation of the Soviet
Union.
April 25 Pravda, No. 95, publishes an appeal signed by J. V. Stalin, Secretary of
the C.C., CPSU(B) and V. V. KuibysheV. Chairman of the C.C.C., CPSU(B), addressed to
all Party organizations and Party control commissions and to Party members engaged in
economic, co-operative, trade, banking and other institutions, on the tight for a regime of
economy.
April 26 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to L. M. Kaganovich and the other members of
the Political Bureau of the C.C., Ukrainian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
April 30 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to the members of the C.C., CPSU(B) in which
he exposes Zinoviev's factional activity.
May 1 J. V. Stalin is present at the military parade of the Moscow Garrison and
demonstration of the working people of Moscow in the Red Square.
May 6 J. V. Stalin has an interview with members of the press.
May 7 At a meeting of the Bureau ot the CPSU(B) delegation to the E.C.C.I., J. V.
Stalin speaks on D. Z. Manuilsky's article "Menshevism Inside-Out and Social-Fascism,"
which was printed in the magazine Kommunistichesky Internatsional (Communist
International), No. 4 (53), April 1926.
May 8 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to the members ot the CPSU(B) delegation to the
E.C.C.I. exposing Zinoviev's factional activity in the Comintern.
May 11 J. V. Stalin informs the representatives of the A.U.C.C.T.U. in Paris and
Berlin of the British T.U.C. General Council's refusal to accept financial aid from the
workers of the USSR for the British miners on strike.
May 15 J. V. Stalin writes a second letter to the members of the CPSU(B)
delegation to the E.C.C.I. exposing Zinoviev's factional activity in the Comintern.
May 16 J. V. Stalin and V. M. Molotov have an interview with members of the
press at the headquarters of the C.C., CPSU(B).
J. V. Stalin has a talk with leading officials of the Central Committee of the All-
Union Leninist Young Communist League and of the Young Communist International
(Y.C.I.).
June 1 J. V. Stalin arrives in Tiflis.
June 2 J. V. Stalin inspects the Zemo-Avchaly hydro-electric power station and
afterwards writes in the visitors' book in Georgian: "Long live our work of construction
and the workers, technicians and engineers engaged in it!" This message was published in
the newspapers Zarya Vostoka, No. 1191, June 3 and Pravdu, No. 133, June 12, 1926.
June 3 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to V. M. Molotov exposing the splitting,
capitulatory policy of Trotsky and Zinoviev and defining the basic line of the C.C.,
CPSU(B) in foreign policy.
J. V. Stalin attends a performance in the Tiflis State Opera House. During the
interval he has a talk with M. Balanchivadze, the composer, about his opera "Tamar
Tsbieri" and about Georgian opera music, and points to the influence of Russian
composers, notably Chaikovsky, on Georgian composers.
June 8 At a meeting of the workers of the chief railway workshops in Tiflis, J. V.
Stalin delivers a report on "The British Strike and the Events in Poland, "and replies to
the greetings of the workers of the railway workshops. The report and the reply were
published in the newspapers Zarya Vostoka, No, 1197, Juno 10, and Pravda, No. 136,
June 16, 1926.
June 13 Bakinsky Rabochy (Baku, Worker), No. 135, publishes J. V. Stalin's reply
to an invitation from the workers of Baku to visit their city.
June J. V. Stalin is elected a member of the Communist Academy.
July 4 J. V. Stalin leaves the Caucasus for Moscow.
July 8 On the occasion of the appearance of its 1,000th issue, J. V. Stalin sends a
message of congrat-ulation to the newspaper Rabochaya Pravda (Workers' Truth), organ
of the Central Committee and Tiflis Committee of the Georgian Communist Party
(Bolsheviks), the Georgian Trade Union Council, and the Tiflis Soviet of Workers',
Peasants', and Rod Army Depu-ties, the message being printed in that issue of the
newspaper.
July 14-23 J. V. Stalin directs the work of the joint plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C.,
CPSU(B).
July 14 At the joint plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C., CPSU(B), J.V. Stalin speaks
on the ques-tion of wages.
July 15 J. V. Stalin delivers a speech at the joint plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C.,
CPSU(B) on a communication made by the Political Bureau on the decisions adopted by
it in connection with the events in Britain, Poland and China.
July 22 1 a.m J. V. Stalin stands in the guard of honour at the bier of F. E.
Dzerzhinsky in the House of Trade Unions.
Pravda, No. 166, publishes a statement by J. V. Stalin in memory of F. E.
Dzerzhinsky.
At the morning silting of the joint plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C., CPSU(B), J. V.
Stalin delivers a speech on the report of the Presidium of the C.C.C., CPSU(B) on the
case of Lashevich and others and on Party unity.
5.30 p.m. J. V. Stalin takes part as pall bearer in carrying the coffin with the body
of F. E. Dzerzhinsky out of the House of Trade Unions.
July 24 J. V. Stalin has a talk with officials of the All-Russian Extraordinary
Commission - the Joint State Political Administration, in connection with the death of F.
E. Dzerzhinsky.
July 27 J. V. Stalin has a talk with representatives of the Polish Communist Party.
July 28 J. V. Stalin has a talk with a representative of the British Labour Party
visiting the USSR.
J. V. Stalin has a talk with a representative of the Finnish Communist Party.
August 6 J. V. Stalin replies to a letter from a representative of the Communist
Party of India.
August 7 At a meeting of the Presidium of the E.G.C.I., J. V. Stalin delivers a
speech on "The Anglo-Russian Committee."
August 13 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to the members of the C.C. and C.C.C.,
CPSU(B) in which he exposes the anti-Party conduct, of Trotsky and Zinoviev at the July
joint plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C., CPSU(B).
September 21 J. V. Stalin sends a cable to the editorial board of the Daily Worker,
central organ of the Workers Party of America.
 Octobers J. V. Stalin writes a letter to Slepkov in connection with the latter's
article printed in Pravda of October 8, 1926.
October 11 J. V. Stalin delivers a speech at a meeting of the Political Bureau of
the C.G., CPSU(B) on "Measures for Mitigating the Inner-Party Struggle."
October 19 An enlarged plenum of the Leningrad Gubernia Committee of the
CPSU(B) elects J. V. Stalin a delegate to the Fifteenth All-Union Conference of the
CPSU(B).
Between October 21 and 25 At the request of the Political Bureau of the C.C.,
CPSU(B), J. V. Stalin writes the theses on "The Opposition Block in the CPSU(B)."
October 22 The Presidium of the E.C.C.I. appoints J. V. Stalin to report on the
Russian question at the Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
October 23 A joint plenum of the C.G. and C.C.C., CPSU(B) appoints J. V. Stalin
to make a report at the Fifteenth All-Union Conference of the CPSU(B) on "The
Opposition and the Inner-Party Situation."
October 26 The Political Bureau of the C.C., CPSU(B) approves J. V. Stalin's
theses on "The Opposition Block in the CPSU(B)" for submission to the October joint
plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C., CPSU(B).
October 26 The newspapers Pravda and Izvestia, Nos. 247, publish J. V. Stalin's
theses on "The Opposi-tion Bloc in the CPSU(B)."
At the joint plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C.. CPSU(B), J. V. Stalin delivers a
speech in support of the theses on "The Opposition Block in the CPSU(B)." The plenum
endorses the theses for submission to the Fifteenth All-Union Conference of the
CPSU(B).
October 26-November 3 J. V. Stalin directs the work of the Fifteenth All-Union
Conference of the CPSU(B).
November 1 At the Fifteenth All-Union Conference of the CPSU(B), J. V. Stalin
delivers a report on "The Opposition and the Inner-Party Situation." The report was
published in Pravda and Iwestia, Nos. 256, 257, November 5 and 6, 1926.
November 3 At the Fifteenth All-Union Conference of the CPSU(B), J. V. Stalin
replies to the discussion on his report on "The Opposition and the Inner-Party Situation."
The reply to the discussion was published in Pravda and Izvestia, Nos. 262, November
12, 1926.
November 6 J. V. Stalin writes a reply to the editorial board of Leningradskaya
Pravda declining to give his consent to the publication of his conversation with Professor
Jerome Davis of Yale University, a report of which was published in garbled form in the
newspaper The New York American.
November 7 J. V. Stalin attends the military parade of the Moscow Garrison and
demonstration of the working people of Moscow in the Red Square.
November 15 J. V. Stalin's report and reply to the discussion at the Fifteenth All-
Union Conference of the CPSU(B) are published in pamphlet form under the title The
Social-Democratic Deviation in Our Party.
November 20 At a meeting of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the
Comintern, J. V. Stalin communicates the plan of his report on "The Internal Situation in
the CPSU(B)" for the Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
November 22- December 16 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Seventh
Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
 November 22 At its first silting, the Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
elects J. V. Stalin a member of its Presidium and of its Political Commission.
November 29-30 J. V. Stalin directs the work of a meeting of the Bureau of the
CPSU(B) delegation to the Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
November 30 J. V. Stalin delivers a speech in the Chinese Commission of the
Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I. on "The Prospects of the Revolution in China."
December 2 The Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I. elects J. V. Stalin a
member of its German commission.
December 4 J. V. Stalin has a talk with a representative of the Indian Communist
Party.
December 7 J. V. Stalin delivers a report at the Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the
E.C.C.I. on internal questions of the CPSU(B).
December 13 At. the Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I., J. V. Stalin replies
to the discussion on his report on inner-Party questions of the CPSU(B).
December 17 J. V. Stalin has a talk with DimitroV. Kolarov and other
representatives of the Bulgarian Communist Party.
December 18 The Executive Committee of the Comintern elects J. V. Stalin a
member of its Presidium.
December 22 J. V. Stalin participates in the discussion of the question of the fight
against the "ultra-Lefts" in Germany at a joint meeting of the delegations of the CPSU(B)
and the German Communist Party taking part in the work of the Seventh Enlarged
Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
December 23 The Seventh Party Conference of the Krasnaya Presnya District,
Moscow, elects J. V. Stalin its first delegate to the Fifteenth Moscow Gubernia Party
Conference.
December 24 At a joint meeting of representatives of the delegations of the
CPSU(B) and the American Communist Party to the Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the
E.C.C.I. J. V. Stalin speaks on the situation in the American Communist Party.
Once More on the Social-Democratic Deviation in Our Party - J. V. Stalin's report
and reply to the discussion at the Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.- is published
in pamphlet form.
December 29 J. V. Stalin has a talk with a delegation from the Armaturny Factory,
Moscow.
December 30 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to Ksenofontov.

1927

January 7 J. V. Stalin has a talk on the land question with a peasant delegate from
the village of Yuryevka, Semirechye Region.
January 8 J. V. Stalin has a talk with a delegation of workers of Sokolniki District,
Moscow.
January 14 J. V. Stalin addresses the Fifteenth Moscow Gubernia Party
Conference.
J. V. Stalin has a talk with representatives of the Polish Communist Party.
January 21 J. V. Stalin attends a memorial meeting in the Bolshoi Theatre,
Moscow, on the occasion of the third anniversary of the death of V. I. Lenin.
 January 28 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to Comrade Zaitsev.
January 29 The Twenty-fourth Leningrad Gubernia Party Conference elects J. V.
Stalin a member of the Leningrad Gubernia Committee of the CPSU(B).
February 7-12 J. V. Stalin directs the work of a plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B).
February 22 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to the workers of the Lena gold-fields on
the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the Lena shooting.
J. V. Stalin sends greetings to the Stalingrad newspaper Borba on the occasion of
its tenth anniversary.
February 23 At a meeting of the French commission of the E.C.C.I. Presidium, J.
V. Stalin speaks on the tactics of the French Communist Party.
J. V. Stalin attends a meeting in the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, in celebration of
the Red Army's ninth anniversary.
February 25 At a conference of representatives of the textile industry, convened
by the C.C., CPSU(B), J. V. Stalin speaks on Bolshevik methods of leadership and on
ways and means for the further development of the textile industry of the Soviet Union.
February 28 J. V. Stalin has a talk with a delegation of workers of the Stalin
Railway Workshops, October Railway.
March 1 J. V. Stalin addresses a meeting of workers of the Stalin Railway
Workshops, October Railway.
At the meeting he is elected a deputy to the Moscow Soviet.
March 7 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to Comrades Tsvetkov and Alypov.
March 9 J. V. Stalin speaks in the French commission of the Presidium of the
E.C.C.I.
March 15 J. V. Stalin's article, "Concerning the Question of a Workers' and
Peasants' Government. Reply to Dmitriev." is published in the magazine Bolshevik, No.
6, 1927.
March 20 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to Shinkevich.
March 29 J. V. Stalin addresses the Fifth All-Union Conference of the All-Union
Leninist Young Communist League in Moscow.
April 2 The Eighth Congress of Soviets of the Moscow Gubernia elects J. V.
Stalin a delegate to the Thirteenth All-Russian Congress of Soviets.
April 5 J. V. Stalin addresses a meeting of the active of the Moscow Party
organization on the character and prospects of the Chinese revolution.
April 8 The Sixteenth Congress of Soviets of the Leningrad Gubernia elects J. V.
Stalin a delegate to the Thirteenth All-Russian Congress of Soviets.
April 9 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to Chugunov.
April 10-16 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Thirteenth All-Russian
Congress of Soviets.
April 13-16 J. V. Stalin directs the work of a plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B).
April 13 At the plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B), J. V. Stalin speaks on the question
of the plenum's agenda and in the discussion on M. I. Kalinin's report on "Questions of
the Congresses of Soviets of the USSR and RSFSR"
April 15 J. V. Stalin's article, "The Party's Three Fundamental Slogans on the
Peasant Question. Reply to Yansky," is published in the magazine Bolshevik, No. 7-8,
1927.
 April 16 The Thirteenth All-Russian Congress of Soviets elects J. V. Stalin a
member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
April 18-26 J. V. Stalin lakes part in the work of the Fourth Congress of Soviets of
the USSR.
April 19-20 J. V. Stalin writes the theses for propagandists "Questions of the
Chinese Revolution." The theses, approved by the C.C., CPSU(B), were published in
Pravda, No. 90, April 21, 1927.
April 26 The Fourth Congress of Soviets of the USSR elects J. V. Stalin a member
of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR.
May 1 J. V. Stalin attends the May Day parade of troops of the Moscow garrison
and the demonstration of the working people of the capital on the Red Square.
May 5 J. V. Stalin's greetings to Pravda on its fifteenth anniversary is published in
Pravda, No. 99.
May 9 J. V. Stalin writes the article "Concerning Questions of the Chinese
Revolution. Reply to Comrade Marchulin." The article was published in the magazine
Derevensky Kommunist, No. 10, May 15, 1927.
May 13 J. V. Stalin has a talk with students of the Sun Yatsen University on
questions of the Chinese Revolution.
May 20 J. V. Stalin writes the article "The Slogan of the Dictatorship of the
Proletariat and Poor Peasantry in the Period of Preparation for October. Reply to S.
Pokrovsky." The article was first published in 1928, in the book: J. Stalin, Problems of
Leninism.
May 24 J. V. Stalin speaks on "The Revolution in China and the Tasks of the
Comintern" at a sitting of the Eighth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the
Comintern.
May 30 J. V. Stalin writes greetings to the students of the fourth graduation from
the Communist University of the Toilers of the East.
June 23 J. V. Stalin writes a reply to S. Pokrovsky.
July 24-27 J. V. Stalin writes an article "Notes on Contemporary Themes." The
article was published in Pravda, No. 169, July 28, 1927.
July 29-August 9 J. V. Stalin directs the work of the joint plenum of the Central
Committee and Central Control Commission of the CPSU(B).
August 1 At a meeting of the joint plenum of the Central Committee and Central
Control Commission of the CPSU(B), J. V. Stalin delivers a speech on "The International
Situation and the Defense of the USSR"
August 2 At a meeting of the joint plenum of the Central Committee and Central
Control Commission of the C,P.S.U.(B), J. V. Stalin is elected to the commission for
editing the draft resolution on the international situation.
August 5 At a meeting of the joint plenum of the Central Committee and Central
Control Commission of the CPSU(B), J. V. Stalin delivers a speech in connection with G.
K. Orjonikidze's report on the breach of Party discipline by Zinoviev and Trotsky.
August 6-9 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the commission of the joint
plenum of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission of the CPSU(B) for
drafting the resolution on the breach of Party discipline by Zinoviev and Trotsky.
 August 9 At a meeting of the joint plenum of the Central Committee and Central
Control Commission of the CPSU(B), J. V. Stalin delivers a speech "With Reference to
Hie Opposition's 'Declaration' of August 8, 1927."
August 11 J. V. Stalin is present at a meeting of the active of the Moscow
organization of the CPSU(B) during the discussion of a report on the decisions of the
August joint plenum of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission of the
CPSU(B).
September 4 J. V. Stalin is present at a youth demonstration held in the Red
Square, Moscow, to celebrate the thirteenth anniversary of International Youth Day.
September 9 J. V. Stalin has an interview with the first American labor delegation.
September 16 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to M. I. Ulyanova.
J. V. Stalin has a talk with the French writer Henri Barbusse.
September 27 At a joint meeting of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of
the Communist International and the International Control Commission, J. V. Stalin
delivers a speech on "The Political Complexion of the Russian Opposition."
September 30 J. V. Stalin has a talk with a group of members of the Executive
Committee of the Comintern and with E. Thalmann, the chairman of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of Germany.
October 21-23 J. V. Stalin directs the work of the joint plenum of the Central
Committee and Central Control Commission of the G.P.S.U.(B).
October 23 At a meeting of the joint plenum of the Central Committee and
Central Control Commission of the CPSU(B), J. V. Stalin delivers a speech on "The
Trotskyist Opposition Before and Now."
The joint plenum of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission of
the CPSU(B) appoints J. V. Stalin to make the Central Com-mittee's political report at the
Fifteenth Congress of the CPSU(B).
October 26 J. V. Stalin has a talk with a delegation of workers from the Moscow
State Aircraft Factory.
October J. V. Stalin writes the synopsis of the article "The International Character
of the October Revolution."
November 3 The Eighth Krasnaya Presnya District Conference of the CPSU(B)
elects J. V. Stalin as a delegate to the Sixteenth Moscow Gubernia Con-ference of the
CPSU(B).
November 5 J. V. Stalin gives an interview to foreign workers' delegations who
have arrived in the USSR to take part in the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the
Great October Socialist Revolution.
November 6 J. V. Stalin delivers a speech of greetings at a meeting of the Moscow
Soviet held to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
November 6-7 J. V. Stalin's article "The International Character of the October
Revolution. On the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the October Revolution" is
published in Pravda, No. 255.
November 7 J. V. Stalin is present at the military parade of the Moscow garrison
and the demonstration of the work-ing people in the Red Square, Moscow, held in honour
of the tenth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
November 9 J. V. Stalin delivers a speech of greetings at a meeting in the Bolshoi
Theatre, Moscow, called by the Central Council of the Society for the Promotion of Air
and Chemical Defence of the USSR in honour of the tenth anniversary of the Groat
October Socialist Revolution and the progress of aircraft construction in the USSR.
November 10 J. V. Stalin attends the first session of the World Congress of the
Friends of the USSR held in the Hall of Columns of the House of Trade Unions.
November 16 J. V. Stalin has a talk with a group of army personnel-delegates to
the Seventh Party Conference of the Moscow Military Area.
November 18 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the Seventh Party Conference of the.
Moscow Military Area are published in Krasnaya Zvezda, No. 263.
November 19 The First Leningrad Regional Conference of the CPSU(B) elects J.
V. Stalin to the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU(B).
November 23 At the Sixteenth Moscow Gubernia Conference of the CPSU(B), J.
V. Stalin delivers a speech on "The Party and the Opposition."
November 28 The Sixteenth Moscow Gubernia Conference of the CPSU(B) elects
J. V. Stalin as a delegate to the Fifteenth Congress of the CPSU(B).
December 2-19 J. V. Stalin directs the work of the Fifteenth Congress of the
CPSU(B).
December 3 J. V. Stalin delivers the political report of the Central Committee to
the Fifteenth Congress of the CPSU(B).
December 7 J. V.. Stalin replies to the discussion on the Central Committee's
political report to the Fifteenth Congress of the CPSU(B).
December 12 The Fifteenth Party Congress elects J. V. Stalin to the commission
for drafting the resolution on the report, of the CPSU(B) delegation in the Executive
Committee of the Comintern.
December 16 J. V. Stalin writes an answer to the enquiry made by foreign press
correspondents in Moscow concerning the counterfeit "articles by Stalin."
December 17 J. V. Stalin takes part in .the meeting of the commission set up by
the Fifteenth Congress of the CPSU(B) to draft the resolution on the report of the
CPSU(B) delegation in the Executive Committee of the Comintern.
December 19 The Fifteenth Congress of the CPSU(B) elects J. V. Stalin to the
Central Committee of the Party.
J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the plenum of the Central Committee of the
CPSU(B) that was elected by the Fifteenth Congress.
The plenum of the Central Coinmittee of the CPSU(B), with the participation of
members of the Presidium of the Central Control Commission, elects J. V. Stalin to the
Political Bureau, Organizing Bureau and Secretariat of the Central Committee, and
appoints him General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(B).

1928
January 7 J. V. Stalin has a talk with S. M. Kirov. Secretary of the Leningrad
Regional Committee, CPSU(B).
January 10 J. V. Stalin has a talk with the Chairman of the Tver Cotton Textile
Trust on questions of the rationalization of production.
January 11 J. V. Stalin has a talk with representatives of Party and Soviet organs
of the Bryansk Gubernia on the work of industry and on collective agreements.
 January 13 J. V. Stalin has a talk with representatives of the Union of Agricultural
Cooperatives, Khlebotsentr, Khleboprodukt and the People's Commissariat of Trade of
the USSR.
January 15 J. V. Stalin leaves for Siberia in connection with the unsatisfactory
state of the grain procurements in that territory.
January 18 J. V. Stalin attends a meeting in Novosibirsk of the Bureau of the
Siberian Territorial Committee of the CPSU(B) together with representatives of the grain
procurement organizations.
January 22 J. V. Stalin conducts a conference in Barnaul of the active of the
Barnaul organization of the CPSU(B) together with representatives of the Biisk and
Rublsovsk okrug Party organizations on the fulfillment of the grain procurement plan.
January 23 At a meeting of the Bureau of the Rubtsovsk Okrug Committee of the
CPSU(), J. V. Stalin speaks on the progress of grain procurements in the area.
January 27 and 28 J. V. Stalin takes part in a discussion on grain procurements at,
meetings of the Bureau of the Omsk Okrug Committee, CPSU(B).
February 6 J. V. Stalin arrives back in Moscow from Siberia.
February 9-25 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Ninth Plenum of the
Executive Committee of the Comintern.
February 10 J. V. Stalin has a talk with A. A. Zhdanov, Secretary of the Nizhni-
Novgorod Gubernia Committee, CPSU(B).
February 13 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to all organizations of the C.F.S.U.(B) on
"First Results of the Procurement Campaign and the Further Tasks of the Party."
February 23 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the Red Army on its tenth anniversary are
published in Krasnaya Zvezda, No. 46.
February 25 J. V. Stalin speaks on "Three Distinctive Features of the Red Army"
at a plenum of the Moscow Soviet held in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Red
Army.
February 26 J. V. Stalin attends a parade of troops of the Moscow Garrison and a
demonstration of the working people on the Red Square, Moscow, arranged in honour of
the tenth anniversary of the Red Army.
J. V. Stalin visits an exhibition of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary
Russia dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the Red Army.
March 21 J. V. Stalin has a talk with members of the staffs of the newspaper
Pravda and the magazine Bolshevik.
J. V. Stalin has a talk with the Secretary of the Omsk Okrug Committee of the
CPSU(B) on grain procurements.
March 28 J. V. Stalin has a talk with representatives of the Stalingrad Gubernia
Committee of the C.P.S.U (B) and of the Gubernia Executive Committee on
reorganisation of administrative districts.
April 6-11 J. V. Stalin directs the work of a joint plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C.,
CPSU().
April 10 J. V. Stalin speaks at the joint plenum of the C.C. and CC.C., CPSU(B)
on the report of the commission set up by the Political Bureau of the C.C. to recommend
practical measures to eliminate the shortcomings revealed by the Shakhty affair. The
plenum elects J. V. Stalin to the commission appointed to prepare the final draft of the
resolution on this question.
 April 13 J. V. Slalin delivers a report to a meeting of the active of the Moscow
organization of the CPSU(B) on The Work of the April Joint Plenum of the Central
Committee and Central Control Commission.
April 30 J. V. Stalin writes a message of greetings to the workers of Kostroma in
connection with the unveiling of a monument to V. I. Lenin in Kostroma on May 1, 1928.
May 1 J. V. Stalin attends the May Day parade of troops of the Moscow Garrison
and the demon-stration of the working people on the Red Square, Moscow.
May 9 J. V. Stalin receives a delegation of students of the Sverdlov Communist.
University.
J. V. Stalin has a talk with the head of the Chief Metal Board of the Supreme
Council of National Economy of the USSR on reconstruction of the metal industry.
May 16 J. V. Stalin delivers a speech at the Eighth Congress of the All-Union
Leninist Young Communist League
May 26 J. V. Stalin writes a message of greetings to Komsomolskaya Pravda in
connection with the newspaper's third anniversary. The greetings are published in
Komsornolskaya Pravda, No. 122, May 27, 1928.
May 27 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the Sverdlov Communist University on its tenth
anniversary are published in Pruvda, No. 122.
May 28 J. V. Slalin attends a meeting in the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, in
celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Sverdlov Communist University.
J. V. Stalin has a talk with students of the Institute of Red Professors, the
Communist Academy and the Sverdlov Communist University about the situation on the
grain front.
May 30 J. V. Stalin receives the Secretaries of the Tula, Smolensk, Yaroslavl and
Vladimir Gubernia Committees, CPSU().
June 8 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to the Party affairs study circle at the Communist
Academy on Slepkov's theses on self-criticism.
June 12 J. V. Stalin writes an article "Lenin and the Question of the Alliance with
the Middle Peasant. Reply to Comrade S." The article was published in Pravda, No. 152,
July 3, 1928.
June 20 J. V. Stalin writes a letter "To the Members of the Political Bureau of the
Central Committee. Reply lo Frumkin. (With Reference to Frumkin's Letter of June 15,
1928.)"
June 26 J. V. Stalin's article "Against Vulgarising the Slogan of Self-Criticism" is
published in Pravda, No. 146.
July 4-12 J. V. Stalin directs the work of a plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B).
July 5 J. V. Stalin delivers a speech on "The Programme of the Cominlern" at the
plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B).
July 9 J. V. Stalin delivers a speech on "Industrialization and the Grain Problem"
at the plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B).
July 11 J. V. Stalin delivers a speech "On the Bond between the Workers and
Peasants and on State Farms" at the plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B).
July 13 J. V. Stalin delivers a report on Results of the July Plenum of the C.C.,
CPSU(B) at a meeting of the active of the Leningrad organization of the CPSU(B).
July 15 J.V. Stalin's message "To the Leningrad Osoaviakhim" in connection with
Defense Week is published in Krasnaya Gazeta (Leningrad), No. 163.
 July 17 The Sixth Congress of the Comintern elects J. V. Stalin to the Presidium
of the congress.
J. V. Stalin takes part in a meeting of the CPSU(B) delegation to the Sixth
Congress of the Comintern and is elected to the delegation's bureau.
July 19 J. V. Stalin is elected to the commission set up by the Sixth Congress of
the Comintern to draft the Comintern Programme.
July 30 J. V. Stalin is elected to the Political Commission set up by the Sixth
Congress of the Comintern to draft theses on the international situation and the tasks of
the Communist International.
August 31 J.V. Stalin writes a letter to V. V. Kuibyshev.
September 1 The Sixth Congress of the Comintern elects J. V. Stalin a member of
the Executive Committee of the Cominlern.
September 3 A plenum of the E.C.C.I. elects J. V. Stalin a member of its
Presidium.
October 9 Pravda, No. 235, publishes the obituary notice, "To the Memory of
Comrade I. I. Skvorlsov-Stepanov." written by J. V. Slalin.
October 12 J. V. Stalin attends the funeral of I.I. Skvorlsov-Stepanov.
October 19 J. V. Stalin delivers a speech on "The Right Danger in the CPSU(B)"
at a plenum of the Moscow Committee and Moscow Control Commission of the
CPSU(B).
October 27 J.V. Stalin writes a "Reply to Comrade Sh."
J. V. Stalin receives the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Railwaymen's
Union.
October 28 J. V. Stalin's message of greetings "To the Leninist Young Communist
League" on the occasion of its tenth anniversary is published in Pravda, No. 252.
October 30 J.V. Stalin receives representatives of the Central Students Bureau of
the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions.
November 6 J. V. Stalin attends a meeting of the Moscow Soviet in celebration of
the eleventh anniver-sary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
November 7 J.V. Stalin attends the parade of troops of the Moscow Garrison and
the demonstration of the working people on. the Red Square, Moscow.
November 16-24 J. V. Stalin directs the work of a plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B).
November 17 J. V. Stalin's message of greetings "On the Tenth Anniversary of the
First Congress of Working Women and Peasant Women" is published in Pravda, No. 267.
November 19 J. V. Stalin delivers a speech on Industrialization of the Country and
the Right Deviation in the CPSU(B) at a plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B).
November 20 J. V. Stalin is elected to the commission set up by the plenum of the
C.C., CPSU(B) to draft the resolution on the control figures of the national economy of
the USSR for 1928 -29.
November 25 J. V. Stalin's letter to the workers of the "Katushka" and Yartsevo
factories, Smolensk Gubernia, in connection with the organization of emulation for the
exemplary carrying out of the elections to the Soviets is published in Pravda, No. 274.
November 26 J. V. Stalin receives the secretaries of the district. committees of the
Moscow city organization of the CPSU(B).
November 27 J. V. Stalin receives leading Y.C.L. officials.
 November 29 J. V. Stalin writes a message of greetings to the workers of the
Krasny Profintern Factory (Bezhitsa) in connection with the campaign for the elections to
the Soviets. The greetings are published in Pravda, No. 278, November 30, 1928.
December 4 J. V. Stalin has a talk with a delegation of worker and peasant
correspondents.
December 9 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the Frunze Military Academy on its tenth
anniversary are published in Pravda, No. 286.
December 12 J. V. Stalin has a talk with members of the staff of Izvestia.
December 19 J. V. Stalin delivers a speech on The Right Danger in the German
Communist Party at a sitting of the Presidium of the E.C.C.I.
J. V. Stalin has a talk with leading officials of the Komi Region on the
reorganization of administrative districts.
December 28 J. V. Stalin writes a "Reply to Kushtysev."

1929
End of January and beginning of February
J. V. Stalin delivers speeches on "Bukharin's Group and the Right Deviation in
Our Party" at a joint meeting of the Political Bureau of the C.C. and Presidium of the
C.C.C., CPSU(B).
February 2 J. V. Stalin writes a "Reply to Bill-Belotserkovsky."
J. V. Stalin writes a message of greetings to the working men and women of the
Krasny Treugolnik Factory in connection with the adoption of the seven-hour day. The
greetings are published in Leningradskaya Pravda, No. 28, February 3, 1929.
February 12 J. V. Stalin has a talk with a delegation of Ukrainian writers.
February 22 J. V. Stalin sends a telegram of greetings to the Red Army men,
commanders and political officers of the First Red Cossack Regiment, stationed at
ProskuroV. on the occasion of the eleventh anniversary of the Red Army.
March 1 J. V. Stalin's greetings on the occasion of the publication of
Selskokhozyaistvennaya Gazeta are published in the first issue of the newspaper.
March 14 The Second Leningrad Regional Party Conference elects J. V. Stalin to
the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU(B).
March 18 J. V. Stalin writes " The National Question and Leninism. Reply to
Comrades Meshkov,. Kovalchuk, and Others."
March 30 J. V. Stalin attends a joint meeting of the Presidiums of the Central
Executive Committee of the USSR, of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, and
of the Councils of People's Commissars of the USSR and RSFSR, arranged in honour of
M. I. Kalinin on the occasion of his tenth anniversary as President of the A.R.C.E.C. and
C.E.C. of the USSR.
April 16-23 J. V. Stalin directs the work of a plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C.,
CPSU(B).
April 22 At the plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C., CPSU(B), J. V. Stalin delivers a
speech on "The Right Deviation in the CPSU(B)."
April 23-29 J. V. Stalin directs the work of the Sixteenth All-Union Conference of
the CPSU(B).
 April 27 At the Sixteenth All-Union Conference of the CPSU(B), J. V. Stalin is
elected to the commission for drafting the resolution on ways and means of promoting
agriculture and tax relief for the middle peasant.
April 29 J. V. Stalin directs the work of a plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B).
May 1 J. V. Stalin attends the May Day parade of the troops of the Moscow
Garrison and the demonstration of the working people of the capital on the Red Square.
May 4 J. V. Stalin has a talk with a delegation of Donbas miners.
May 6 J. V. Stalin delivers a speech in the American Commission of the
Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Comintern on the Right factionalists in the
American Communist Party.
May 11 J. V. Stalin writes the article, "Emulation and Labour Enthusiasm of the
Masses," a foreword to Mikulina's pamphlet, Emulation of the Masses. The article is
published, in Pravda, No. 114, May 22.
May 14 J. V. Stalin delivers speeches on the situation in the American Communist
Party at a meeting of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Comintern.
May 20-28 J. V. Stalin lakes part in the work of the Fifth Congress of Soviets of
the USSR
May 28 At the Fifth Congress of Soviets of the USSR J. V. Stalin is elected a
member of the Union Soviet of the C.E.C,. USSR.
June 18 J. V. Stalin and V. M. Molotov have a talk with a delegation of
representatives of the timber industry.
July 9 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to Comrade Felix Kon.
July 10 J. V. Stalin sends a congratulatory message to the Ukrainian Young
Communist League on its tenth anniversary. The message is published in Pravda, No.
157, July 12.
July 24 J. V. Stalin is present at exercises of a squad-ron of the Black Sea Fleet.
July 25 J. V. Stalin pays a visit to the Cruiser "Chervona Ukraina," attends an
amateur concert given by the crew, and makes an entry in the logbook of the cruiser.
October 30 J. V. Stalin writes a message of greetings to the Special Far Eastern
Army on the occasion of the twelfth anniversary of the Great October Socialist
Revolution. The message is published in Trevoga, No. 52, and Pravda, No. 259,
November 7.
November 3 J. V. Stalin writes the article "A Year of Great Change," published in
Pravda, No 259, November 7.
November 7 J. V. Stalin attends the parade of the troops of the Moscow Garrison
and the demonstration of the working people of the capital on the Red Square on the
occasion of the twelfth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
November 10-17 J. V. Stalin directs the work of a plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B).
November 13 At a meeting of the plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B), J. V. Stalin
delivers a speech denouncing the factional activities of the leaders of the Bukharin
opposition.
The plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B) elects J. V. Stalin to a commission set up for
the final draft of the resolution on the control figures for the national economy in 1929-
30, and for drafting a resolution on Bukharin's group of Right deviators.
 November 15 The plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B) elects J. V. Stalin to a
commission set up to draft the final text of a resolution on the results and further tasks of
collective-farm development.
November 29 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Second Session of the
C.E.C., USSR, fifth convocation.
December 18 J.V. Stalin's article, "A Necessary Correction, " is published in
Pravda, No. 298.
December 21 J.V. Stalin writes a reply to all organisations and comrades who sent
him congratulations on his fiftieth birthday. The reply is published in Pravda, No. 302,
December 22.
December 27 J. V. Stalin delivers a speech to an All-Union Conference of Marxist
Students of Agrarian Questions "Concerning Questions of Agrarian Policy in the USSR"
The speech was published in Pravda, No. 309, December 29.

1930

January 2 J.V. Stalin's message of greetings to the workers of Stalingrad on the

occasion of the tenth anniversary of the liberation of the city from the whiteboards is
published in Pravda, No. 2.
January 5 On the motion of J. V. Stalin, the C.C., CPSU(B) adopts a decision on
"The Rate of Collectivization and State Measures to Assist Collective-Farm
Development." The decision was published in Pravda, No 6, January 6.
January 17 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to A. M. Gorky.
January 19 J. V. Stalin writes the article, "Concerning the Policy of Eliminating
the Kulaks as a Class." The article was published in Pravda, No. 21, and Krasnaya
Zvezda, No. 18, January 21.
January 21 J. V. Stalin attends a memorial meeting in the Bolshoi Theatre on the
occasion of the sixth anniversary of the death of V. I. Lenin.
February 9 J. V. Stalin writes the "Reply to the Sverdlov Comrades." It was
published in Pravda, No. 40, February 10.
 February 13 In response to the request of numerous organizations and general
meetings of workers, peasants and Red Army men, J. V. Stalin is awarded a second Order
of the Red Banner for his outstanding services on the front of socialist construction. The
resolution of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR making the award was
published in Pravda, No. 53, February 23.
February 22 J. V. Stalin writes a message of greetings to the First Cavalry Army
on the occasion of its tenth anniversary. The message was published in Pravda, No. 53,
February 23.
J. V. Stalin writes a reply to a letter from the workers of the Izhevsk factory
wishing them success in the fulfillment of their plan of production of munitions for the
Red Army. The reply was published in Izhevskaya Pravda, No. 51, March 2.
J. V. Stalin attends a celebration meeting of the Moscow Soviet in the Bolshoi
Theatre on the occasion of the twelfth anniversary of the Red Army and the tenth
anniversary of the First Cavalry Army.
March 2 J. V. Stalin's article, "Dizzy With Success" is published in Pravda, No.
60.
Not later than March 14 J. V. Stalin works on drafting a decision of the C.C.,
CPSU(B) on "The Fight Against Distortions of the Party Line in the Collective-Farm
Movement." The decision was published in Pravda, No. 73, March 15.
March 19 J. V. Stalin replies to a letter of Comrade Bezymensky.
April 3 J. V. Stalin's article, "Reply to Collective-Farm Comrades" is published in
Pravda, No. 92.
April 21 J. V. Stalin writes a message to the workers of the Stalin Metal Works,
Leningrad, congratulating them on completing ahead of schedule the first powerful
turbine to be produced in the USSR The message was published in Leningradskaya
Pravda, No. 112, April 23.
April 25 J. V. Stalin writes a message of congratulation to the first graduates of
the Industrial Academy. The message was published in Pravda, No. 115, April 26.
April 26 J. V. Stalin's message of greetings to the builders of the Turkestan-
Siberian Railway on the occasion of the completion of the construction and the opening
of through traffic is published in Pravda, No. 115.
May 1 J. V. Stalin attends the May Day military parade and demonstration of the
working people of the capital on the Red Square.
May 10 J. V. Stalin's message of greetings to the Special Cavalry Brigade on the
occasion of its tenth anniversary is published in Pravda, No. 127.
May 27 The Krasnaya Presnya and Bauman District Party Conferences elect J. V.
Stalin as a delegate to the Moscow Regional Party Conference and to the Sixteenth
Congress of the CPSU ().
May 31 J. V. Stalin replies to a letter of Comrade M. Rafail.
June 16 J. V. Stalin sends a message of greetings to the personnel of the Rostov
Agricultural Machinery Works congratulating them on the completion of the building of
the works ahead of programme. The message is published in Pravda, No. 165, June 17.
J. V. Stalin writes a reply to a letter of greetings from collective farmers of the
Kanevskaya District, Krasnodar territory. The reply is published in Krasnoye Znamya
(Krasnodar), No. 137, June 18, and in Pravda. No. 167, June 19.
 June 17 J. V. Stalin sends a message of greetings to the workers of the Stalingrad
Tractor Works congratulating them on the completion and starting ahead of schedule of
the first tractor works in the USSR The message is published in Pravda, No. 166, June 18.
June 25 J. V. Stalin directs the work of a plenum of the C.C., CPSU(). The
plenum approves the theses prepared by the Political Bureau for the Sixteenth Party
Congress and appoints J. V. Stalin to make the report at the Sixteenth Congress of the
CPSU (B) on the first item of the agenda (political report of the Central Committee).
June 27 J. V. Stalin delivers the political report of the Central Committee at the
Sixteenth Congress of the CPSU().
July 2 J. V. Stalin at the Sixteenth Congress of the CPSU(B) replies to the
discussion on the Political Report of the C.C. of the Party.
July 6 J. V. Stalin is present at the Dynamo Stadium for the sports festival held in
honour of the Sixteenth Congress of the CPSU(B).
July 10 The Sixteenth Congress of the CPSU(B) elects J. V. Stalin to the
commission for the final editing of the resolution on the report on the collective-farm
movement and the progress of agriculture.
July 12 The Sixteenth Congress of the CPSU(B) elects J. V. Stalin a member of
the Central Committee of the Party.
July 13 The plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B) elects J. V. Stalin a member of the
Political Bureau, the Organizing Bureau and the Secretariat of the C.C. and appoints him
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(B).
August 14 On the motion of J. V. Stalin, the Central Executive Committee and
Council of People's Commissars of the USSR adopt a decision on "Universal
Compulsory Elementary Education."
August J. V. Stalin writes his reply to Comrade Shatunovsky's letter.
November 6 J. V. Stalin attends the celebration meeting of the Moscow Soviet on
the occasion of the thirteenth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
November 7 J. V. Stalin is present at the military parade of the Moscow Garrison
and the demonstration of the working people of the capital in the Red Square in honour of
the thirteenth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
November, December 7 J. V. Stalin answers Comrade Ch.'s letters.
December 9 J. V. Stalin talks with members of the bureau of the CPSU(B) unit at
the Institute of Red Professors of Philosophy and Natural Science on the situation at the
philosophical front and the tasks of the struggle on two fronts in philosophy, and on the
need for elaborating the theoretical heritage of Lenin.
December 12 J. V. Stalin writes his reply to Demyan Bedny's letter.
December 17-21 J. V. Stalin directs the work of the joint plenum of the C.C. and
C.C.C., CPSU(B).
December 24 J. V. Stalin, by decision of the Council of People's Commissars of
the USSR, is appointed a member of the Council of Labor and Defense.
1931

January 4 J. V. Stalin attends the opening of the Third Session of the Central
Executive Committee of the USSR, Fifth Convocation.
January 5-6 J. V. Stalin participates in the work of a conference held in the C.C.,
CPSU(B) with railway transport personnel.
 January 8 J. V. Stalin is elected an honorary member of the Leningrad Soviet by
the workers of the city's large enterprises.
January 12 J. V. Stalin writes an answer to the inquiry of the Jewish News Agency
in the U.S.A. about the attitude in the USSR to anti-Semitism.
January 16 J. V. Stalin attends the opening of the Ninth Congress of the All-Union
Leninist Y.C.L. The congress elects him to its honorary presidium.
January 21 J. ,V. Stalin attends the memorial meeting at the Bolshoi Theatre to
commemorate the seventh anniversary of the death of V. I. Lenin.
January 23 J. V. Stalin is elected an honorary member of the Moscow Soviet at
meetings of the workers of the capital's large enterprises.
February 4 J. V. Stalin delivers his speech on "The Tasks of Business Executives"
at the First All-Union Conference of Leading Personnel of Socialist Industry.
February 24 J. V. Stalin, at the Second Moscow Regional Congress of Soviets, is
elected a delegate to the Fifteenth All-Russian and the Sixth All-Union Congresses of
Soviets.
February 26-March 5 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Fifteenth All-
Russian Congress of Soviets.
February 27 J. V. Stalin writes his answer to Comrade Etchin's letter.
March 5 J. V. Stalin, at the session of the Fifteenth All-Russian Congress of
Soviets, is elected a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
March 8-17 J. V. Stalin participates in the work of the Sixth All-Union Congress
of Soviets.
March 17 J. V. Stalin, at the session of the Sixth All-Union Congress of Soviets, is
elected a member of the Union Soviet of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR.
March 31 J. V. Stalin writes greetings to the workers and the administrative and
technical personnel of the State Association of the Azerbaijanian Oil Industry and that of
the Grozny Oil and Gas Industry in connection with their fulfillment of the five-year oil
production plan in two and a half years. The greetings are published in Pravda, No. 90,
April 1, 1931.
April 3 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the workers and the administrative and technical
personnel of Elektrozavod (Moscow) in connection with the factory's fulfillment of its
five-year plan in two and a half years are published in Pravda, No. 92.
May 1 J. V. Stalin is present at the May Day military parade of the Moscow
Garrison and the demonstration of the working people of the capital in the Red Square.
May 7, 14, 23 and 29 and June 4 J. V. Stalin participates in the work of the
commission for the drawing up of the draft decision of the Political Bureau of the C.C.,
CPSU(B) on improving and expanding Moscow's municipal economy.
May 11 and 13 J. V. Stalin takes part in a conference of person-nel of the coal
industry, held in the C.C., CPSU(B).
May 19 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the workers and the executive staff of the
Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works Project on the occasion of the completion of the
construction and the commencement of the exploitation of the powerful Magnitogorsk
mine are published in Pravda, No. 136.
May 28 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the workers, specialists and executive staff of
the machine and tractor stations on the occasion of the preschedule fulfillment of their
sowing plan are published in Pravda, No. 145.
 May 30 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the workers, specialists and executives of the
state grain farms on the occasion of the fulfillment of the sowing plan are published in
Pravda, No. 147.
June 11-15 J. V. Stalin directs the work of the plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B).
June 22-23 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of a conference of business
executives held under the auspices of the C.C., CPSU(B).
June 23 J. V. Stalin delivers his speech, New Conditions- New Tasks in Economic
Construction at the conference of business executives held under the auspices of the C.C.,
CPSU(B).
July 23 J. V. Stalin, at a meeting of the C.C., CPSU(B) attended by cooperative
officials, delivers a speech on questions of improving the work of the consumers'
cooperatives and of supplies tor the working people in big industrial centers.
October 1 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the staff of the AMO Works (Moscow) on the
occasion of the completion of the building of the first gigantic automobile works in the
USSR and to the staff of the Kharkov Tractor Works on the occasion of the preschedule
completion of its construction are published in Pravda, No. 271.
October 10 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the newspaper Tekhnika on the occasion of
its first appearance are published in Pravda, No. 280 and in Tekhnika, No. 1.
October 11 J. V. Stalin, V. M. Molotov and K. Y. Voroshilov pay a visit to A. M.
Gorky, who reads them one of his works, a fairytale called "The Girl and Death."
October 25 J. V. Stalin, K. Y. Voroshilov. G. K. Orjonikidze and L. M.
Kaganovich meet in the Kremlin shock brigaders of the Stalin Automobile Works (the
former AMO), who arrived on the first lorries and buses manufactured by the plant.
October 28-31 J. V. Stalin directs the work of the plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B).
End of October J. V. Stalin's letter to the editorial board of the magazine
Proletarskaya Revolutsia on "Some Questions Concerning the History of Bolshevism" is
published in the magazine Bolshevik, Nos. 19-20 and in the magazine Proletarskaya
Revolutsia, No. 6 (113).
November 3 J. V. Stalin and V. M. Molotov send a message of greetings to the
builders of the automobile works in Nizhni-Novgorod on the occasion of the successful
completion of the construction work. The greetings are published in Pravda, No. 305,
November 4, 1931.
November 6 J. V. Stalin attends the celebration meeting of the Moscow Soviet
held in the Bolshoi Theatre on the occasion of the fourteenth anniversary of the Great
October Socialist Revolution.
November 7 J. V. Stalin is present at the military parade of the Moscow Garrison
and the demonstration of the working people of the capital in the Red Square in honour of
the fourteenth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
November 25 J. V. Stalin, by decision of the Political Bureau of the C.C.,
CPSU(B), is appointed a member of the commission for preparing the draft resolution of
the Seventeenth Conference of the CPSU(B), "Directives for Drawing up the Second
Five-Year Plan for the National Economy of the USSR (1933-1937)."
December 6 J. V. Stalin receives a group of Moscow writers and talks with them
on problems of literature.
December 13 J. V. Stalin has a talk with the German writer Emil Ludwig.
 December 22 J. V. Stalin attends the opening of the Second Session of the Central
Executive Committee of the USSR, Sixth Convocation.