| January 2 |
Lenin conducts a meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars, puts forward for examination the question of libraries; the meeting also discusses the question of provision for Red Army men’s families; engineering factories, etc. Lenin conducts a session of the Council of Defence at which the following questions are discussed: plans for transporting military materiel, personnel and food; permission for the workers to buy unrationed foodstuffs; the Council of Defence created in Astrakhan. |
| January 3 | Lenin sends a telegram to the Revolutionary Military Council in connection with preparation for a general assault on Krasnov. |
| January 8 | In a note to the letter written by Stalin and Dzerzhinsky about measures for strengthening the Third Army outside Perm, Lenin writes of his agreement with the demands made in the letter and puts the letter forward as an order to be carried out by the [MIA Note: Source material cuts off here] |
| January 14 | After reading “The Preliminary Report on the Progress of Investigation into the Causes of the Surrender of Perm” drawn up by Dzerzhinsky and Stalin, Lenin instructs them personally to see to the execution of the measures mentioned on the spot for righting the situation on the Third Army’s sector. |
| January 17 | Lenin speaks on the food policy of the Soviet government at a joint session of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Soviet and the All-Russia Congress of Trade Unions hold in the Bolshoi Theatre; introduces a draft resolution. |
| January 18 |
Lenin speaks about relations between Soviet central bodies and those in the districts at a meeting of the Moscow City Conference of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Lenin speaks about the tasks before Soviet teachers at the Second All-Russia Congress of Internationalist Teachers. |
| January 19 | Lenin speaks from the balcony of the Moscow Soviet at a protest meeting following the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. |
| January 20 | Lenin delivers a report on the tasks of the trade unions at the Second All-Russia Trade Union Congress, held in Trade Union House. |
| January 21 | Lenin writes “Letter to the Workers of Europe and America”. |
| January 24 |
Lenin speaks about the tasks of adult education at the Second Conference of Heads of Adult Education Divisions of Gubernia Education Departments. Lenin instructs the Revolutionary Military Council to do all it can to take Rostov, Chelyabinsk and Omsk in the next month. |
| January 26 | Lenin writes an appeal “Everybody on Food and Transport Work!” |
| January 27 | Lenin conducts a session of the Council of Defence at which the following questions are discussed: sending thanks to workers at the Izhevsk works for increasing their output of rifles; fuel for railways, etc. |
| February 2 | Lenin writes a letter to the People’s Commissariats of Food, Finance and the Supreme Economic Council about measures governing the transition from bourgeois-co-operative to proletarian-communist supply and distribution. |
| February 5 | Lenin grants an interview to Ludovic Naudeau, correspondent of Le Temps. |
| February 10 | Lenin conducts a session of the Council of Defence at which the following questions are discussed: water transport; repair of steam locomotives; the fuel situation on the railways, etc. |
| February 17 | Lenin conducts a session of the Council of Defence at which the following questions are discussed: organisation of trains for conveying grain and coal; restoration of the railways ruined during the enemy retreat, etc. |
| February 19 | Lenin drafts a reply from the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs to the radio telegram sent by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs dated February 19, 1919, requesting permission for the entry of a commission from the Berne Conference of the Second International. |
| February 22 | Lenin drafts a resolution for the All-Russia Central Executive Committee on the closure of the Menshevik newspaper Vsegda Vperyod because of its seditious propaganda. |
| February | Lenin writes a letter to the People’s Commissariat of Education explaining how to correctly arrange the accountability of the libraries. |
| Latter half of February | Lenin begins an article “Concerning the Appeal of German Independents”. The article remained unfinished. |
| Late February-early March | Lenin writes “Theses on Bourgeois Democracy and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat” for the First Congress of the Communist International. |
| March 1 | Lenin conducts a preparatory session of a group of delegates to the First Congress of the Communist International, convened in connection with the opening of the Congress for debating problems of organisation. |
| March 2-6 | First Congress of the Communist International. Lenin takes a leading part in the work of the Congress; he is elected to the presidium. |
| March 2 | Lenin delivers the opening speech at the Congress. |
| March 4 | Lenin delivers a report to the third session of the Comintern Congress about bourgeois democracy and the dictatorship of the proletariat and reads his theses. |
| March 5 | Lenin writes the article “Won and Recorded” about the founding of the Communist International. |
| March 6 |
Lenin delivers the concluding speech at the fifth session of the Comintern Congress. Lenin speaks about the founding of the Communist International at a joint meeting of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Soviet, the Moscow Committee of the R.C.P.(B.), the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions and other organisations, which was held in the Bolshoi Theatre. |
| March 7 | Lenin conducts a meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars which debates the question of co-operation—the decision is based on Lenin’s theses. |
| March 8 |
Lenin speaks to the first group finishing six-week courses organised by the Mother and Child Protection Department of the People’s Commissariat of Social Security. Lenin presides over a meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars; in connection with discussion of the report on reorganising State Control, Lenin writes his observations and a note to Stalin. He suggests additions to the decree on reorganisation of State Control. |
| February-March | Lenin works on the drafting of a programme for the R.C.P.(B.). |
| March 12-13 | Lenin in Petrograd. |
| March 12 | Lenin speaks at a session of the Petrograd Soviet on the foreign and home policy of the Council of People’s Commissars. |
| March 13 |
Lenin attends the funeral of M . T. Yelizarov at the Volkov Cemetery in Petrograd. Lenin visits the Palace of Labour in Petrograd; he speaks at a session of the First Congress of Farm Labourers of Petrograd Gubernia on the organisation of a farm labourers’ trade union. Lenin speaks at two meetings in the People’s House, Petrograd. |
| March 14 | Lenin returns to Moscow from Petrograd. |
| March 16 | Lenin visits Yakov Sverdlov who is lying ill in the Kremlin. |
| March 17 | Lenin participates in drafting and then signs a government statement on measures of struggle in connection with fresh counter-revolutionary acts by Left Socialist-Revolutionaries in Petrograd. |
| March 18 | Lenin speaks at a special session of the AllRussia Central Executive Committee held in memory of Yakov Sverdlov. After the session Lenin walks to Red Square with the funeral procession and delivers a short speech over Sverdlov’s grave. |
| March 18-23 | Lenin guides the work of the Eighth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.). |
| March 18 | Lenin delivers the opening speech at the Congress and is elected to the presidium; he delivers the report of the Central Committee. |
| March 19 | Lenin reports to the second session of the Congress on the Party Programme and closes the discussion on that point at the third session. |
| March 20 | Lenin guides a sitting of the Council of People’s Commissars which discusses the formation of the the Bashkirian Soviet Autonomous Republic, the mobilisation of farming specialists, etc. |
| March 20-21 | Lenin is in the chair at meetings of the Congress Programme Commission. |
| March 21 | Lenin speaks at the fifth (closed) session of the Congress on the war situation. |
| March 22 | Lenin is instructed by the Congress to wireless a message of greeting to the Hungarian Soviet Republic. |
| March 23 |
Lenin speaks at the eighth session of the Congress on work in the countryside; the Congress adopts his resolution on the attitude to the middle peasantry. Lenin is elected to the Central Committee; delivers a speech closing the Congress. |
| March 25 | At a Plenary Meeting of the C.C. R.C.P.(B.) Lenin is elected a member of the Political Bureau of the C.C. |
| March 27 | Lenin writes his “Reply to an Open Letter by a Bourgeois Specialist”. |
| March 30 | Lenin speaks at a meeting of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee on the candidacy of Mikhail Kalinin for the post of Chairman of the Executive Committee. |
| End of March | Lenin makes gramophone records of eight speeches. |
| April 1 | Lenin phones a telegram to the All-Russia Extraordinary Commission on urgent measures to prevent attempts to blow up and damage railways. |
| April 3 |
Lenin speaks on the foreign and domestic situation of the Soviet Republic at an Extraordinary Meeting of the Moscow Soviet and writes the draft of a resolution. Lenin guides a session of the Council of People’s Commissars which discusses the Soviet workers’ and peasants’ militia, increasing the transport of grain from the railways in the East, and a draft decree on the reorganisation of the state control apparatus. |
| April 8 | Lenin guides a session of the Council of People’s Commissars which discusses preferential treatment of middle peasants in respect of the single extraordinary revolutionary tax, fodder and food rations in the consumer gubernias, etc. |
| April 9 | Lenin signs the decree on state control approved by the All-Russia Central Executive Committee. |
| April 10 | Lenin writes his “Letter to the Petrograd Workers on Aid for the Eastern Front”. |
| April 11 |
Lenin writes his “Theses of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) on the Situation on the Eastern Front”. Lenin speaks at a Plenary Meeting of the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions on the tasks of the trade unions in the mobilisation for the Eastern Front. |
| April 13 |
Lenin attends a Plenary Meeting of the C.C. R.C.P.(B.). Lenin writes a foreword to Henri Guilbeaux’s pamphlet Socialism and Syndicalism in France During the War. |
| April 15 |
Lenin writes “The Third International and Its Place in History”. Lenin speaks at a ceremonial meeting of the First Moscow Heavy Artillery Commanders’ Courses on the occasion of the presentation of the Red Banner of the Rogozhsky District Committee of the R.C.P.(B.). |
| April 16 | Lenin speaks at a meeting of the railwaymen of Moscow Junction on the mobilisation of all forces to fight against Kolchak. |
| April 17 |
Lenin speaks on the fight against Kolchak at a conference of Moscow factory committees and trade unions. Lenin writes the Afterword to the pamphlet The Achievements and Difficulties of the Soviet Government. Lenin delivers a speech of greeting to the First All-Russia Congress of Communist Students. |
| April 20 | In a telegram to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front Lenin proposes stepping up operations against Denikin in the Donets Basin. |
| April 21 | By a decision of the Council of Defence Lenin is appointed a member of the commission to study accounting for army property by the Extraordinary Commission on Red Army Supplies. |
| April 25 | Lenin instructs the commander of the Ukrainian Front to take Taganrog. |
| April 27 | Lenin writes greetings to the Bavarian Soviet Republic. |
| April 28 | Lenin guides a meeting of the Council of Defence which discusses the extraordinary mobilisation in connection with Kolchak’s campaign, urgent measures to economise fuel, etc. |
| April | In a letter to Petrograd organisations Lenin gives instructions for the dispatch of Petrograd workers to the Don region and the Ukraine and for the organisation of the work of industrial enterprises for war needs. |
| End of April | Lenin sends a telegram to the Ukrainian Council of People’s Commissars in which he proposes the establishment of the strictest control over the activities of the Socialist-Revolutionaries in Ukrainian government institutions. |
| May 1 | Lenin delivers three speeches in Red Square—two on May Day and the third at the unveiling of a monument to Stepan Razin on Lobnoye Mesto. |
| May 3 | Lenin delivers a report on Party policy in respect of the middle peasants to a meeting of students at the All-Russia Central Executive Committee propagandist courses and the Proletarian University. |
| May 4 | Lenin participates in the work of the Plenary Meeting of the C.C. R.C.P.(B.). |
| May 5 |
In a telegram to the Ukrainian Soviet Government Lenin demands speedier military aid for the Donets Basin. Lenin guides a session of the Council of Defence which discusses the results of an inspection of Soviet government institutions and measures being adopted to reduce their staffs, improving the transport of army freights, etc. |
| May 6 | Lenin delivers a speech of greeting to the First All-Russia Congress on Adult Education. |
| May 8 | Lenin sends a telegram in the name of the C.C. R.C.P.(B.) to the Ukrainian Council of People’s Commissars on increasing aid to the Southern Front. |
| May 9 | Lenin sends a telegram in the name of the C.C. R.C.P.(B.) to the Council of Defence representative in Kiev with an instruction to mobilise workers immediately and dispatch them to the Southern Front. |
| May 11 | Lenin writes amendments and addenda to the draft appeal to German workers and to peasants who do not exploit the labour of others. |
| May 12 | In a telegram to the Revolutionary Military Council of the 5th Army Lenin demands the speedup of the offensive and the consolidation of the victory over Kolchak. |
| May 13 | Lenin guides a session of the Council of People’s Commissars which discusses district food supply bodies, the allocation of funds to build the Sha - tura and Kashira Power Stations, etc. |
| May 17 |
Lenin guides a meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars which discusses the State Publishing House, free food for children, etc. Lenin guides a meeting of the Council of Defence which discusses the situation in Petrograd in connection with the whiteguard offensive. |
| May 19 | Lenin speaks on “Deception of the People with Slogans of Freedom and Equality” at the First All-Russia Congress on Adult Education |
| May 25 | Lenin takes the salute at a parade in Red Square of workers’ regiments formed under the universal military training scheme and speaks on the importance of universal military training for the working people. |
| May 27 | Lenin writes his “Greetings to the Hungarian Workers”. |
| May 28 |
Lenin writes his “The Heroes of the Berne International”. Lenin demands from the Ukrainian Council of People’s Commissars that urgent measures of of aid to the Southern Front be taken. In a telegram to the Ukrainian Deputy People’s Commissar for War, Lenin proposes sending Kharkov workers to defend Lugansk. |
| May 29 | In a telegram to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Eastern Front in Simbirsk Lenin demands that all efforts be devoted to the liberation of the Urals by winter. |
| May 31 | The article “Beware of Spies!” is published in Pravda over the signatures of Lenin and Dzerzhinsky. |
| May | Lenin signs a draft directive on the unification of the armies and an alliance between the Soviet republics of Russia, the Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Byelorussia. |
| June 1 | Lenin takes part in a meeting of the Political Bureau of the C.C. which discusses the question of founding a Ukrainian army. |
| June 2 | Lenin takes part in the work of a joint meeting of the Political and Organising Bureaus of the C.C. R.C.P.(B.) |
| June 6 | In a telegram to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Eastern Front in Simbirsk, Lenin proposes a number of urgent measures in connection with a possible break-through by Kolchak in the direction of Vyatka. |
| June 9 | Lenin instructs the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic to organise aid for Petrograd from the Eastern Front. |
| Not later than June 10 | Lenin writes the draft decision of the C.C. R.C.P.(B.) on the Petrograd Front. |
| June 10 | Lenin participates in the joint meeting of the Political and Organising Bureaus of the C.C. R.C.P.(B.). |
| June 11 | Lenin instructs the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic to conduct an inquiry into the delay in sending reinforcements to the Petrograd Front. |
| June 14 |
In telegrams to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front and the Revolutionary Military Council of the 10th Army Lenin proposes bending all efforts to retain Tsaritsyn. Lenin speaks at a meeting of machine-gun course students in the Moscow Trade Union House. |
| June 15 | Lenin participates in a joint meeting of the Political and Organising Bureaus of the C.C. R.C.P.(B.). |
| June 18 | In a telegram to the Revolutionary Military Council of the 10th Army Lenin greets the defenders of Red Tsaritsyn. |
| June 19 | Lenin guides a meeting of the Council of Defence which discusses measures to increase the food army and the inquiry into the events at Krasnaya Gorka. |
| June 23 | Lenin writes the foreword to the published speech “Deception of the People with Slogans of Freedom and Equality”. |
| June 25 | In the name of the Council of Defence Lenin thanks the commanders and men of the 5th, 2nd and Turkestan armies for their outstanding valour and great effort in the fighting against Kolchak. |
| June 28 | Lenin completes his pamphlet A Great Beginning (Heroism of the Workers in the Rear. “Communist Subbotniks”). |
| June 30 | Lenin signs the Council of People’s Commissars decision to permit workers’ and rural organisations in the central gubernias to procure food in Simbirsk Gubernia independently. |
| July 1 | In a telegram to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Eastern Front Lenin congratulates the liberators of the Urals, the heroic Red troops who captured Perm and Kungur. |
| July 3-4 | Lenin takes part in a Plenary Meeting of the C.C. R.C.P.(B.) which approves Lenin’s letter “All Out for the Fight Against Denikin!” addressed to all Party organisations. |
| July 4 | Lenin speaks on the present situation and the immediate tasks of Soviet power at a joint meeting of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Soviet of Workers’ and Red Army Deputies, the All-Russia Council of Trade Unions and representatives of Moscow Factory Committees. |
| July 11 | Lenin lectures on the state at the Sverdlov University. |
| July 12 | Lenin delivers a report on the foreign and domestic situation of the Republic at the Moscow City Conference of the R.C.P.(B.). |
| July 14 | Lenin writes his article “The Tasks of the Third International. Ramsay MacDonald on the Third International”. |
| July 15 | Lenin speaks on the foreign and domestic situation of the Republic at a Red Army Conference at Khodynskoye Camp. |
| July 20 | Lenin writes his “Answers to an American Journalist’s Questions”. |
| July 30 | Lenin speaks on the food and war situation at a Moscow conference of factory committees, trade unions and representatives of the Moscow Central Workers’ Co-operative. |
| July 31 | Lenin speaks at the First All-Russia Congress of Workers in Education and Socialist Culture. |
| July | Lenin writes his “In the Servants’ Quarters”; the article was unfinished. |
| August 6 | Lenin speaks at a non-party conference of workers and Red Army men. |
| August 7-9 | Lenin sends a directive in the name of the Political Bureau of the C.C. R.C.P.(B.) to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic and the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukraine to defend Odessa and Kiev. |
| August 19 | Lenin writes to the Italian socialists Serrati and Lazzari. |
| August 24 | Lenin writes his “Letter to the Workers and Peasants Apropos of the Victory over Kolchak”. |
| August 28 | Lenin writes a letter to the British Communist, Sylvia Pankhurst. |
| August 29 | Lenin delivers a second lecture on the state at Sverdlov University. |
| August | Lenin writes his article “Freedom to Trade in Grain”. |
| September 3 | Lenin speaks on the current situation at a non-party conference of workers and Red Army men of Basmanny, Lefortovo, Alexeyevskoye and Sokolniki districts of Moscow. |
| September 5 | Lenin telegraphs the Bashkirian Revolutionary Committee on the urgent need to transfer Bashkirian units for the defence of Petrograd; sends greetings to Bashkirian Red Army men. |
| September 12 | Lenin gives guidance to a session of the Council of Defence which discusses the results of the work of the Moscow Coalfield, the supply of food for the workers of Petrograd and Kronstadt engaged on especially important defence work, etc. |
| September 16 | Lenin writes to Gusev sharply criticising the conduct of operations by the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, and Trotsky for bad work on the Southern front. |
| September 18-20 | Lenin writes “How the Bourgeoisie Utilises Renegades”. |
| September 23 |
Lenin writes his letter “To the American Workers”. Lenin speaks at the Fourth Moscow City Conference of Non-Party Working Women. |
| September 24 | Lenin gives guidance to a session of the Council of Defence which discusses the area in which martial law is to be introduced in connection with Denikin’s offensive and the preparations for the defence of that area, the organisation of universal military training, the supply of arms and clothing to the food army, etc. |
| September 26 | Lenin gives guidance to a plenary meeting of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) which discusses the organisation of a Party Week, measures to strengthen the Southern Front, the attitude towards the Cossacks, etc. |
| September-October | Lenin works on plans and notes for his pamphlet The Dictatorship of the Proletariat. |
| October 2 | Lenin sends a telegram to the Petrograd workers welcoming their efforts in carrying out mobilisation for the Southern Front. |
| October 3 | Lenin writes his article “The Example of the Petrograd Workers”. |
| October 5 | Lenin writes his answers to questions put by the correspondent of the Chicago Daily News. |
| October 6 | Lenin sends greetings to the Second All-Russia Congress of the Russian Communist Youth League. |
| October 8 | Lenin gives a directive to the Orenburg Gubernia Party Committee and the Orenburg Gubernia Executive Committee to provide reinforcements for the Southern Front. |
| October 10 |
Lenin writes his article “Greetings to Italian, French and German Communists”. In a telegram to Ufa workers Lenin thanks them for restoring the bridge over the River Belaya ahead of schedule. |
| October 11 | Lenin writes his article “The Workers’ State and Party Week”. |
| October 13 | Lenin sends a telegram to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Fifth Army and to M. V. Frunze, commander of the Turkestan Front, conveying the C.C. directive to help the Southern Front. |
| October 14 | In a telegram to the Petrograd Soviet’s Executive Committee Lenin directs it to mobilise the workers of Soviet institutions for the front, repulse Yudenich’s attack and continue helping the Southern Front. |
| October 15 |
Lenin instructs the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic to send wireless stations to the Southern Front without delay. Lenin instructs N. A. Semashko to compile a draft decree on the formation of a Committee for Aid to the Wounded at the All-Russia Central Executive Committee. |
| October 16 | Lenin speaks from the balcony of the Moscow Soviet building greeting worker Communists from Yaroslavl and Vladimir gubernias who are on their way to the Southern Front. |
| October 17 | Lenin writes his appeal “To the Workers and Red Army Men of Petrograd”. |
| October 17-18 | Lenin requests the People’s Commissariat of Food for information on food dispatched to Petrograd and transmits that information to the Petrograd Soviet. |
| October 18 | Lenin sends directive to Petrograd Committee of the R.C.P.(B.) to speed up the defeat of Yudenich; informs the committee of the dispatch of troops to the Petrograd Front. |
| October 19 | Lenin writes his appeal “To the Red Army Men”. |
| October 20 | Lenin instructs the chairman of the Tula Gubernia Executive Committee and the Gubernia Military Committee to concentrate all forces on the war and war supplies, re-organising all work on war-time lines. |
| October 21 | Lenin writes his “Results of Party Week in Moscow and Our Tasks”. |
| October 22 | Lenin instructs the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic to mobilise a further 20,000 Petrograd workers to crush Yudenich completely. |
| October 24 |
In the Blue Hall of the Moscow Trade Union House Lenin addresses worker Communists from Ivanovo-Voznesensk who have been mobilised for the front. Lenin addresses students of the Sverdlov Communist University who are leaving for the front. |
| October 28 |
Lenin addresses students at Adult Education Courses who are leaving for the front. Lenin writes letters to foreign Communists—to French and Italian Communists, to members of the Central Committee of the C.P. of Germany and to a group of Communists who have broken away from the C.P. of Germany. |
| October 30 | Lenin writes his “Economics and Politics in the Era of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat”. |
| November 1 | Lenin, on the direct line to Petrograd, gives instructions for the concentration of big forces to rout Yudenich. |
| November 5 | Lenin writes his article “Greetings to the Workers of Petrograd” on the occasion of the second anniversary of Soviet power. |
| November 6 |
Lenin’s “Soviet Power and the Status of Women” is published; the article was written on the occasion of the second anniversary of Soviet power. Lenin gives guidance to a session of the Political Bureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) at which it is decided to call an All-Russia Party Conference and an All-Russia Congress of Soviets. It was also decided to provide reinforcements for the Southern Front. |
| November 7 |
Lenin’s “Two Years of Soviet Power” is published. Lenin speaks at a joint session of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Soviet, the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions and factory committees on the occasion of the second anniversary of the October Revolution. |
| November 10 | Lenin’s letter “To the Communists of Turkestan” is published. |
| November 11 |
Lenin telegraphs to the Chairman of the Special Food Commission of the Eastern Front on the need to arrange food supplies for the Urals workers. Lenin gives guidance to a session of the Council of People’s Commissars which discusses the organisation of a single forestry body (Lenin drafts the resolution), the mobilisation of Soviet office workers to get in stores of firewood, the provision of fuel for the Tretyakov Gallery, the libraries and other cultural and educational institutions, the organisation of comrades’ disciplinary courts, etc. |
| November 13 | The circular letter from the C C., R.C.P.(B.) to Party organisations, “The Fight to Overcome the Fuel Crisis”, written by Lenin, is published. |
| November 18 | Lenin speaks at the First All-Russia Conference on Party Work in the Countryside. |
| November 21 |
Lenin conducts a preliminary meeting of a group of delegates who have arrived for the Second AllRussia Congress of Communist Organisations of the Peoples of the East. Lenin takes the chair at a meeting of the Political Bureau which discusses a draft resolution on Soviet rule in the Ukraine written by Lenin and adopts it. |
| November 22 | Lenin delivers a report to the Second All-Russia Congress of Communist Organisations of the Peoples of the East. |
| November 27 | Lenin instructs the Presidium of the Supreme Economic Council to discuss the question of printing in the newspaper Ekonomichcskaya Zhizn (Economic Life) periodical reports on the development of the main branches of the economy. |
| November 29 | Lenin gives guidance to the plenary meeting of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) which discusses preparations for the All-Russia Party Conference and the AllRussia Congress of Soviets, the question of Soviet power in the Ukraine, etc. |
| December 2-4 | Eighth All-Russia Conference of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks); Lenin guides the work of the Conference. |
| December 2 |
Lenin delivers the opening speech at the Conference and is elected a member of the presidium; he takes the chair at the first (morning) session. At the second (evening) session of the Conference Lenin delivers the report on the political work of the Central Committee and closes the debate on the report. Lenin writes a draft resolution on foreign policy; the draft is accepted by the Conference. |
| December 3 |
Lenin speaks at the third (morning) session of the Conference on Soviet power in the Ukraine. At the fourth (evening) session of the Conference Lenin sums up the debate on Soviet power in the Ukraine. |
| December 4 | Lenin speaks at the First Congress of Agricultural Communes and Agricultural Artels. |
| December 5-9 | Seventh All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers’, Peasants’, Red Army and Cossack Deputies. Lenin guides the work of the Congress. |
| December 5 | Lenin is elected to the presidium of the Congress at the first session, and delivers the report of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars; he tables a draft resolution on foreign policy which is unanimously adopted. |
| December 6 | At the second session Lenin closes the debate on the report of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars. |
| December 8 | Lenin takes part in the discussion on the report on Soviet development at the second meeting of the organisation section of the Congress. |
| December 9 |
Lenin is elected a member of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee at the fifth session of the Seventh Congress of Soviets. Lenin delivers a speech closing the Congress |
| December 11 | Lenin telegraphs Orel Gubernia Food Commissar to investigate the complaint of the peasants of Lavrovo Volost that grain requisitioning quotes are too high, and if it is true, to reduce them. |
| December 16 | Lenin writes “The Constituent Assembly Elections and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat”. |
| December (not earlier than 17th) | In two notes to D. I. Kursky! People’s Commissar of Justice, Lenin indicates measures to combat red tape. |
| December 18 | The newspaper Smena (The Younger Generation) prints Lenin’s message of greeting sent on the occasion of the Petrograd Komsomol’s “youth week”. |
| December 19 | Lenin speaks in Presnya District, Moscow, at a meeting in the Prokhorov (now Trekhgornaya) Textile Mill devoted to the December 1905 insurrection in Moscow. |
| December 20 |
Lenin speaks on subbotniks at the Moscow City Conference of the R.C.P.(B.). Lenin issues instructions to the Revolutionary Military Councils of the Eastern Front and the Fifth Army, and also to bodies of the People’s Commissariat of Railways to adopt urgent measures to send to the centre no fewer than 200 locomotives needed to move army and food-supply trains. |
| December 21 | Lenin sends instructions to Tula Gubernia Committee of the R.C.P.(B.) and the Gubernia Executive Committee on the organisation of the urgent supply of food for Moscow. |
| December 23 | Lenin is chairman of a session of the Council of People’s Commissars which discusses the question of improving conditions for scientists, the obligatory implementation of the laws adopted by the Sixth Congress of Soviets, etc. |
| December 26 | Lenin telegraphs instructions to the Kharkov Gubernia Executive Committee to bend all efforts to deliver coal to the centre and speed up the repair of locomotives. |
| December 28 | Lenin writes “Letter to the Workers and Peasants of the Ukraine Apropos of the Victories over Denikin” |
| December | Lenin writes the draft resolution of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee on the Borotba Party; he raises the question of dissolving that party which has acted against the interests of the proletariat. |
| Second half of December | Lenin compiles the draft of a comparative table of food consumption by the people of the R.S.F.S.R. before the imperialist war and after the Great October Socialist Revolution; he sends the draft to the Central Statistical Board for review. |
| December 31 | Lenin attends a New Year’s Eve meeting in the Corn Exchange in Basmanny District, Moscow, where he speaks of the victories of the Red Army and of the coming struggle to overcome economic chaos. |
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