The Life and Work of V.I. Lenin: 1920

V. I. Lenin

The Life and Work of V.I. Lenin

From Volume 30

1920

January 5	Lenin entrusts A. I. Svidersky, member of the Collegium of the People’s Commissariat of Food, to receive representatives of the workers of the Balashin Factory to discuss the question of supplies of food for the workers, and to inform him of the decision taken.
January 9	Lenin gives guidance to a session of the Council of Defence which discusses measures to improve the coal industry of the Urals and others.
January 10	Lenin writes a letter of greetings to a congress of women workers and peasants of Petrograd Gubernia.
January 12	In telegrams to the Revolutionary Military Councils of the Third and Fifth Armies Lenin sends greetings to the Third Army on the occasion of its conversion into an Army of Labour; in a note to A. D. Tsyurupa, People’s Commissar for Food, he drafts decision of the Council of People’s Commissars on this question.
January 13	Lenin speaks at a meeting of the communist group of the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions on discipline and one-man or corporate management of enterprises.
January 16	Lenin speaks on the question of labour conscription at a meeting of the communist group of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee. In a letter to Tomsky at the Central Council of Trade Unions Lenin sharply criticises the red tape, bureaucratic methods and inefficiency of the trade Union leadership in respect of the employment of skilled workers to restore the railways; Lenin demands practical measures to combat bureaucratic methods.
January 17	Lenin gives guidance to a session of the Council of People’s Commissars which discusses an increase in the area under crops, the work of the post and telegraph department (Lenin proposes amendments to the draft resolution), the abolition of the death penalty, measures to perpetuate the memory of Alesander Herzen, measures to improve the position of Soviet office workers, etc. Lenin instructs M. V. Frunze, commander of the Turkestan Front, to speed up the building of the railway from Alexandrov-Gai to Emba and the transport of oil to the centre.
January 23	Lenin gives guidance to a meeting of the Political Bureau of the C.C.; introduces a draft directive on the compilation of Rules for the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection. In a letter to G. M. Krzhizhanovsky Lenin gives instructions on the compilation of a plan for the electrification of the R.S.F.S.R.
January 24	Lenin makes marginal notes on the drafts for the Rules for the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection. Lenin speaks at a non-party conference of workers and Red Army men in Presnya District, Moscow.
January 26	Lenin gives guidance to a conference on the cooperative movement; the conference discusses the unification of the various types of co-operatives and the abolition of the Council of Co-operative Congresses, and also the question of the role of consumers’ co-operatives in the matter of food supplies; Lenin writes draft decisions and directives on the co-operative movement.
January 27	Lenin speaks at the Third All-Russia Congress of Economic Councils. Lenin is chairman at a meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars; he submits for discussion a draft message to the Polish Government in connection with the preparations being made by bourgeois Poland to attack the Soviet Republic. The meeting adopts decrees on the co-operatives and discusses questions of the management of state farms, foreign trade, etc.
January 31	Lenin guides the work of the plenary meeting of the Party C.C. that approves the resolution on Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection.
February 1	Lenin writes a letter to members of the Council of Defence in which he outlines a number of urgent measures arising out of the catastrophic state of railway transport. Lenin writes a note about a draft instruction on bonuses for factory and office workers. Lenin speaks at a conference of chairmen of gubernia and uyezd executive committee on the question of the tasks of the committees.
February 2	At the first session of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, Seventh Convocation, Lenin delivers the report on the work of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars.
February 3	Lenin gives instruction to the chairman of the Nizhni-Novgorod Gubernia Executive Committee to help the work of the Nizhni-Novgorod radio laboratory.
Before February 5	Lenin writes his “Draft (or Theses) of the R.C.P.’s Reply to the Letter of the Independent SocialDemocratic Party of Germany”.
February 5	Lenin speaks at a meeting of the railwaymen of Moscow Junction.
February 7	Lenin writes “À la guerre comme à la guerre!”
February 9	Lenin speaks at a non-party conference of workers and Red Army men of Blagusha-Lefortovo District.
February 14	Lenin writes “A Publicist’s Notes’.
February 17	Lenin enquires of G. K. Orjonihidze about the state of the Soviet troops of the Caucasian Front; he insists on the adoption of urgent measures to improve their fighting potential.
February 18	Lenin writes answers to the questions of the correspondents of the American Universal Service Agency and the British Daily Express.
February 21	Lenin writes a message “To the Women Workers” on the occasion of the elections to the Moscow Soviet. Lenin instructs the executives of the AlexandrovGai-Emba Railway construction job to take urgent measures to accelerate the building of the railway; he proposes that the People’s Commissariat of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection and the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic provide the necessary funds, transport, fuel and materials.
February 25	Lenin speaks at the Third All-Russia Conference of Directors of Adult Education Divisions of Gubernia Education Departments. In a letter to the Collegium of the People’s Commissariat of Food Lenin proposes the urgent discussion of the question of improving the food supply of the workers of the Ukhtomsky (Lyubertsy) Factory, Moscow Gubernia.
February 27	Lenin instructs the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic to turn all attention to the strengthening of the Western Front due to the need to prepare for war against bourgeois Poland in the event of her attack on Soviet Russia. In a letter to the members of the Collegium of the People’s Commissariat of Food, Lenin requests information on the possibility of increasing the food rations of schoolteachers of Vesyegonsk Uyezd, Tver Gubernia.
February 28	Lenin’s reply to J. Longuet is read at the Strassburg Congress of the French Socialist Party; in this letter Lenin says that the French Socialist Party can be accepted into the Third International only on condition that the opportunists are expelled from the party.
February	Lenin is elected deputy to the Moscow Soviet by the workers of State Confectionery Factory No. 3 (now the Bolshevik Factory) and by the workers and office employees of Khovrino Station.
March 1	Lenin receives a delegation of workers from the Glukhovo Textile Mills; he requests information from the People’s Commissariat of Food, the Central Textile Board and the People’s Commissariat of Agriculture concerning the food situation among the workers of that concern. Lenin delivers a report to the First All-Russia Congress of Working Cossacks. Lenin speaks at the Second All-Russia Congress of Medical Workers.
March 2	The letter from the C.C. to R.C.P.(B.) organisations, written by Lenin, on the preparations for the Party Congress is published.
March 4	Lenin writes his article “International Working Women’s Day”.
March 6	Lenin speaks at a session of the Moscow Soviet of Workers’ and Red Army Deputies. Lenin speaks at a special session of the Moscow Soviet on the occasion of the first anniversary of the foundation of the Third International.
March 9	Lenin issues a directive to the Siberian Revolutionary Committee not to make any concessions to the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks during negotiations concerning their participation in the government that is being set up in the Far East.
March 10	Lenin issues instructions to the people’s commissariats on the convocation of a conference to elaborate urgent measures to improve the food situation of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk workers. Lenin gives guidance to a session of the Council of Defence which discusses railway transport, the organisation of administrative sessions of the Council of Defence (tables amendments to the draft decision), the provision of workers to build the Kashira power station, the supply of food for the IvanovoVoznesensk workers, etc.
March 11	In a telegram to G. K. Orjonikidze on the Caucasian Front Lenin gives instructions to transfer troops to the Western Front because of a possible attack of bourgeois-landowner Poland on Soviet Russia.
March 14	Lenin writes a note to G. M. Krzhizhanovsky about the first draft of a programmatic announcement on the work of the State Commission for the Electrification of Russia (GOELRO). In a telegram to S. M. Kirov in Astrakhan Lenin asks his opinion concerning methods of transporting oil.
March 15	Lenin speaks at the Third All-Russia Congress of Water Transport Workers. Lenin speaks at a meeting of the communist group of the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions where he defends the principle of one-man management of enterprises.
March 16	Lenin speaks at a Sverdlov memorial meeting held in the Bolshoi Theatre.
March 17	Lenin sends a telegram to G. K. Orjonikidze at the Revolutionary Military Council of the Caucasian Front containing a directive to concentrate all efforts on the capture of Baku.
March 19	Lenin gives guidance to a session of the Council of Defence which discusses urgent measures for the security of the Republic’s frontiers, water transport, and the setting up of a commission to compute the losses sustained by the Soviet Republic as a result of the attack by the imperialist powers and the blockade. In a telegram to Maxim Gorky in Petrograd Lenin informs him of measures to improve supplies of food for scientists in compliance with his request.
March 22	Lenin receives representatives of the Central Bureau of Communist Organisations of the Peoples of the East and talks with them about the formation of a Tatar Republic.
March 23	Lenin gives guidance to a session of the Council of People’s Commissars which discusses the draft rules for the State Commission for the Electrification of Russia, factories that are to be placed directly under the central bodies of the Supreme Economic Council (Lenin drafts the resolution), timber concessions to Estonia, etc.
March 25	Lenin is elected delegate to the Ninth All-Russia Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) by the Moscow City Conference of the R.C.P.(B.). Lenin gives guidance to sessions of the Council of Defence and the Council of People’s Commissars which discuss the transport of goods by water, increased deliveries of grain and fish to the centre, the formation of a Committee to Improve Scientists’ Living Conditions, etc.
End of March	Lenin makes gramophone records of two speeches—“Work for the Railways” and “Labour Discipline”.
March 29-April 5	Ninth Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Lenin guides the work of the Congress.
March 29	Lenin makes the opening speech at the Congress. Lenin is elected to the presidium. Lenin delivers a report on the political activities of the Central Committee of the Party.
March 30	Lenin closes the discussion on the Central Committee’s report at the second (morning) session of the Congress.
March 31	Lenin speaks on economic development at the fourth (morning) session of the Congress.
March-April	Lenin writes his article “On Compromises”.
April 2	Lenin sends a telegram to. G. K. Orjonikidze at the Revolutionary Military Council of the Caucasian Front containing directives on the attitude to the Moslems, especially when advancing into Daghestan.
April 3	Lenin speaks on the co-operative movement at the eighth (evening) session of the Ninth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.).
April 4-6	Lenin speaks at the First (Inaugural) All-Russia Congress of Mineworkers.
April 5	Lenin’s election to the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.) is announced at the tenth (morning) session of the Congress. Lenin delivers a speech closing the Congress. Lenin makes a short speech on the list of candidates for membership of the Central Committee. The Congress delegates congratulate Lenin on his forthcoming fiftieth birthday; speeches are delivered by M. I. Kalinin, Y. M. Yaroslavsky, F. Y. Kon and others. It is decided to issue Lenin’s Collected Works.
April 6	Lenin writes a letter to Adoratsky in Kazan asking whether it is possible for him to gather material on the history of the Civil War and the history of the Soviet Republic. Lenin gives guidance to a session of the Council of People’s Commissars which discusses the nationalisation of stocks of books and the greater utilisation of books from Moscow and Petrograd to meet the requirements of the provinces and the rural areas.
April 7	Lenin speaks at the Third All-Russia Congress of Trade Unions.
April 8	Lenin writes his article “From the Destruction of the Old Social System to the Creation of the New”.
April 16	Lenin gives guidance to a session of the Council of Labour and Defence which discusses measures to increase the delivery of oil, the establishment of control over the consumption of fuel on the railways, the situation in the Donets Basin coal industry, and others.
April 19	Lenin speaks at the Third All-Russia Congress of Textile Workers.
April 20	In a telegram to the Baltic Fleet in Petrograd Lenin orders an immediate start to be made on preparing Petrograd port for the export of timber.
April 23	Lenin speaks on the tasks of the Bolshevik Party at a meeting organised in honour of his fiftieth birthday by the Moscow Committee of the R.C.P.(B.).

From Volume 31

1920

April-May	Lenin writes “Left-Wing” Communism—an Infantile Disorder. In a letter to K. A. Timiryazev Lenin gives a high appraisal of the latter’s book Science and Democracy
April 29	Lenin speaks on the foreign and domestic situation of the Soviet Republic at the Fourth All-Russia Congress of glass and porcelain workers.
May 1	In the morning Lenin participates in a subbotnik in the Kremlin. At 2 p.m. Lenin speaks at a meeting dedicated to the laying of the foundation stone of a monument to Karl Marx in Teatralnaya Square (now Sverdlov Square). At 3 p.m. Lenin speaks at a meeting dedicated to the laying of the foundation stone of a monument to Liberated Labour on the Moskva River embankment, visits an exhibition of the designs for the future monument at the Museum of Fine Arts (now the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts). Lenin speaks at meetings in Zamoskvorechye and Baumansky districts in Moscow at the inauguration of the Zagorsky Workers’ Palace of BlagushaLefortovo district and at the meeting of workers of the Prokhorov manufacture in Red Presnya district.
May 2	Lenin’s article “From the First Subbotnik on the Moscow-Kazan Railway to the All-Russia May Day Subbotnik” is published in the handbill Pervomaisky Subbotnik.
May 4	Lenin presides over a meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars; submits for approval the message of greetings to the Government of the Azerbaijan Soviet Republic, which is endorsed by the Council. The meeting also discusses the measures to help the Western front, the composition of a commission to be appointed to prepare materials on the formation of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and other questions.
May 4 or 5	Lenin sends a telegram to all gubernia executive committees, the Moscow and the Petrograd city executive committees and gubernia revolutionary committees, instructing them to assist the Central Statistical Board and its local branches in taking an all-Russia census of the population.
May 5	Lenin addresses a parade of troops leaving for the Polish front, in Teatralnaya Square. Lenin speaks on the tasks in the defence of the Soviet Republic against the attack of bourgeoislandowner Poland, at a joint session of the AllRussia Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Soviet and representatives of the trade unions and factory committees of Moscow. Lenin sends a message of greetings to the Soviet Socialist Government of Azerbaijan on the formation of an independent Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan. In a letter to M. N. Pokrovsky, Lenin writes about the need to publish a dictionary of present-day Russian.
May 7	In a letter to the 30th Regiment of Red Communards of the Turkestan front Lenin thanks them for the macaroni and flour sent to him. The products were given to the children of Moscow.
May 10	Lenin directs an emergency session of the Council of Labour and Defence to discuss the supply of the armies on the Western front with munitions and clothing.
May 12	Lenin writes the Appendix to his “Left-Wing” Communism—an Infantile Disorder. Lenin sends a directive to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Caucasus front demanding the immediate dispatch of divisions to help the Western front.
May 13	Lenin delivers a speech on the international situation at an enlarged conference of workers and Red Army men of Rogozhsko-Simonovsky district.
May 14	Lenin directs a session of the Council of Labour and Defence, which discusses the supply of armies on the Western front with clothes, the food situation in the Donets Basin, and production of cartridges, rifles and machine-guns. Lenin raises the question of building narrow-gauge railway lines for the transportation of timber.
May 18	Lenin presides over a session of the Council of People’s Commissars, reports on Stalin’s appointment as member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, Y. S. Hanecki’s cooptation into the Central Union of Consumers’ Societies and the extension of the sphere of activity of the Caucasian Soviet Labour Army to include the Don region and the whole of the Soviet Caucasus.
May 20	Lenin’s reply to the Indian Revolutionary Association is published.
May 21	Lenin writes a letter to Serafimovich conveying his condolences on the death of the latter’s son. Lenin directs a session of the Council of Labour and Defence which discusses the supply of the army with cartridges, rifles and machine-guns the shipment of motor vehicles for the army, food supplies for the workers of the Chief Leather Committee, and of the oilfields in Baku and Astrakhan, supply of fuel to Petrograd, etc.
May 23	Lenin writes his letter “To Petrograd Party Workers” containing instructions on the publication of “Left-Wing” Communism—an Infantile Disorder.
May 25	Lenin writes his comments on the draft decree on measures for proper distribution of housing accommodations among working people.
May 26	Lenin writes a draft decision of the Council of People’s Commissars on food procurements. Lenin talks with a delegation of British workers.
May 27	Lenin writes amendments and addenda to the draft decision of the Council of People’s Commissars on higher technical educational establishments.
May 30	Lenin writes his “Letter to the British Workers”.
June 1	Lenin draws up a plan of theses on the national and the colonial questions for the Second Congress of the Communist International.
June 2	Lenin sends a telegram to Stalin, member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the SouthWestern front, informing him of the situation on the Western and the Caucasus fronts and indicating the need of vigorously prosecuting the offensive to Kiev, and of sensing reinforcements there from the Crimea.
June 4	Lenin receives Mr. Fuse, correspondent of the Japanese newspapers Osaka Mainichi and Tokyo Nichi-Nichi. Lenin writes a note to the State Publishing House and the Supreme Council of the National Economy asking that comrades from Kirghizia be provided with a typefoundry, a printing press and stocks of paper.
June 5	Lenin writes “Preliminary Draft Theses on the National and the Colonial Questions (For the Second Congress of the Communist International)”.
Beginning of June	Lenin writes “Preliminary Draft Theses on the Agrarian Question (For the Second Congress of the Communist International)”.
June 8-10	“Left-Wing” Communism—an Infantile Disorder is published.
June 12	Lenin writes a review of issues Nos. 1-18 of the journal Kommunismus, organ of the Communist International for the countries of South-Eastern Europe, published in German in Vienna. Lenin speaks on the international situation of the Soviet Republic and the current tasks of the Party in the countryside, at the Second All-Russia Conference of organisers responsible for rural work.
June 13	Lenin writes amendments and addenda to the draft decision of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) on the tasks of the R.C.P.(B.) in Turkestan.
June 18	Lenin directs a meeting of the Council of Labour and Defence, which discusses the defence of the country against the Polish offensive, revision of the list of militarised enterprises and other questions.
June 19	Speaking at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, Lenin criticises the policy of the French Socialist Party and of the Right wing of the Italian Socialist Party.
June 20	Lenin instructs the Deputy People’s Commissar of Education to give help to the Pulkovo Observatory.
June 29	Lenin writes a note to the Secretariat of the C.C. R.C.P.(B.) proposing to obligate the State Publishing House to arrange for the translation and publication of new economic works and a number of works by materialist philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
June	Lenin writes “The Plan of the Resolution on the Content of the Concept ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’ and on the Struggle Against the ‘Fashionable’ Distortion of This Slogan”.
July 2	Lenin writes the appeal “Aid the Wounded of the Red Army!”
July 4	Lenin writes his “Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Second Congress of the Communist International”.
July 6	Lenin writes the preface to the French and German editions of his Imperialism, the Latest Stage of Capitalism.
July 8	Lenin gives directives on checking the English, French and German translations of the pamphlet “Left-Wing” Communism—an Infantile Disorder.
July 10	Lenin writes a letter to Chicherin concerning the text of the treaty with Lithuania.
Between July 10 and 19	Lenin prepares his report on the international situation and the fundamental tasks of the Communist International for the Second Congress of the Communist International.
Not later than July 18	In a letter to the Communist International Executive Committee, Lenin sets forth his plan of theses on the economic and political situation in the world for the Second Congress of the Third, Communist International.
July 18	Lenin leaves for Petrograd to take part in the proceedings of the Second Congress of the Communist International.
July 19-August 7	The Second Congress of the Communist International is held. Its work is directed by Lenin.
July 19	At the first session of the Congress, Lenin is elected to the Presidium; he delivers a report on the international situation and the fundamental tasks of the Communist International. Lenin speaks at a meeting dedicated to the laying of the foundation stone of a monument to Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg on Uritsky Square in Petrograd. The meeting is attended by delegates to the Congress. Lenin and Congress delegates lay wreaths on the graves of revolutionary fighters on the Mars Field in Petrograd.
July 20	Lenin returns to Moscow.
July 23	Lenin presides over the second session of the Second Congress of the Comintern, which has moved to Moscow; he speaks on the role of the Communist Party.
July 24	The third session of the Congress elects Lenin to the commission on the international situation and the fundamental tasks of the Communist International, the commission on the national and the colonial questions, and the commission on the agrarian question.
July 25	Lenin directs the work of the commission on the national and the colonial questions and delivers a speech. Lenin’s theses on the terms of admission into the Communist International and his proposal concerning the formation of the leading bodies of the parties applying for admission (Article 20 of the terms of admission into the Comintern) are discussed and approved at a meeting of the commission of the Congress. Lenin writes critical remarks on Levi’s theses on the national and the colonial questions, exposing his nationalist stand.
July 26	Lenin directs the work of the Congress commissions on the agrarian question and the fundamental tasks of the Communist International. The commissions approve Lenin’s theses on the questions under discussion. Lenin addresses the fourth session of the Congress on behalf of the commission on the national and the colonial questions and submits his theses approved by the commission.
July 28	Lenin’s theses on the national and the colonial questions are unanimously adopted at the fifth session of the Second Congress of the Communist International.
July 30	Lenin addresses the eighth session of the Congress during the debate on the terms of admission into the Communist International. Lenin’s theses are approved by the Congress.
July	Lenin writes a note to Kursky asking him if steps have been taken to establish Soviet power without delay, drive out the landowners and transfer their lands to the poor peasants and the Soviets of farm labourers in the areas liberated by the Red Army. Lenin writes his critical comments on the French Socialist Party’s declaration to the Second Congress of the Communist International.
August 2	Lenin sends a telegram to Stalin informing him of the decision of the Political Bureau of the Party C.C. to constitute a separate Southern front, in view of the increased threat from Wrangel. Lenin addresses the tenth session of the Congress during the debate on parliamentarianism.
August 3	Lenin replies to the telegram by Stalin who expressed his dissatisfaction with the Party C:C.’s decision to constitute a separate Southern front, emphasising the correctness of the C.C. decision.
August 4	The thirteenth session of the Second Congress of the Communist International discusses and unanimously approves Lenin’s theses on the agrarian question. Lenin sends a telegram to Stalin asking for the appraisal of the situation on the South-Western and the Wrangel fronts.
August 6	Lenin addresses the sixteenth session of the Second Congress of the Communist International on the British Communist Party’s affiliation to the Labour Party.
August 7	Lenin attends the first sitting of the newly elected Executive Committee of the Communist International. Lenin writes to the State Publishing House, indicating the need to translate the material appearing in Soviet newspapers, as well as in Communist and bourgeois newspapers of various countries and publish monthly pamphlets in foreign languages exposing the imperialist policy of the Entente.
August 11	Lenin sends a telegram to Stalin informing him of the progress of the peace talks with Poland and instructing him to intensify the offensive on the Crimean front in order to complete the rout of Wrangel and liberate the whole of the Crimea.
August 16	Lenin writes his “Letter to the Austrian Communists”.
August 18	Lenin sends a telegram to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Western front instructing it to intensify the offensive against the Poles. Lenin forwards to the “small” Council of People’s Commissars Gorky’s request that the Petrograd scientists be provided with increased food rations, proposing that the request be granted.
August 19	Lenin sends a telegram to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Western front, instructing it to send without delay reinforcements of Byelorussian workers and peasants to the front.
August 20	Lenin directs a meeting of the Council of Labour and Defence which discusses the Kashira power project, special measures to be taken in the case of the retreat of the Soviet troops on the Wrangel front, the supplying of Moscow with firewood and other questions.
August 28	Lenin fills in a registration form of the all-Russia census of the population.
September 1	In a note to the Rumyantsev Museum library (now the Lenin Library) Lenin asks to be lent two best available Greek-German, Greek-French, Greek-Russian or Greek-English dictionaries, the best philosophical dictionaries, dictionaries of philosophical terms in German, French, English or Russian and books on the history of Greek philosophy. Lenin reports to the Second All-Russia Congress of the Union of Workers of Education and Socialist Culture on the current situation.
September 2	Lenin writes the preface to the second edition of Materialism and Empirio-Criticism.
September 6	Lenin sends on to the Podolsk Uyezd Food Committee an appeal by the peasants of the village of Bogdanovo to cut down the food requisitioning quotas and writes a telephone message ordering an immediate consideration of the appeal and reducing the quotas as much as possible.
September 14	Lenin directs a meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars which discusses grain requisitioning, the establishment of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, etc.
September 17	Lenin receives a peasant delegate from Siberia and in the course of the talk makes notes on the measures to improve the condition of the peasants in Siberia.
September 20	Lenin directs a plenary meeting of the Party C.C. which discusses the peace talks with Poland, the All-Russia Conference of the R.C.P.(B.) and other questions.
September 22-25	Lenin directs the work of the Ninth All-Russia Conference of the R.C.P.(B.).
September 22	Lenin opens the Conference and is elected to the Presidium; he delivers the political report of the C.C. and, makes amendments to the resolution on the Polish question. At the evening session of the Conference Lenin closes the debate on the political report of the C.C.
Before September 23	Lenin edits the draft declaration of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee on the terms of peace with Poland.
September 24	Lenin writes the draft resolution “The Immediate Tasks of Party Development” for the All-Russia Conference of the R.C.P.(B.). Lenin addresses the evening session of the Conference during the debate on the report on the immediate tasks of Party development. Lenin writes the “Letter to the German and the French Workers. Regarding the Discussion on the Second Congress of the Communist International”
Not later than September 28	Lenin writes a letter to the Congress of the Czechoslovak Communist Party.
September 29	Lenin writes proposals for the Conference resolution “The Immediate Tasks of Party Development”.
October 2	Lenin speaks on the tasks of the youth leagues, at the Third All-Russia Congress of the Russian Young Communist League. Lenin speaks on the foreign and domestic situation of the Soviet Republic at the Congress of leather industry workers. Lenin writes an appeal “To the Poor Peasants of the Ukraine”.
October 8	Lenin writes a draft resolution for the Proletcult congress and submits it for consideration by the Party’s C.C.
October 12	Lenin takes part in the funeral of Inessa Armand on Red Square.
The middle of October	Lenin receives H. G. Wells, the British writer.
October 15	Lenin reports on the foreign and domestic situation of the Soviet Republic, at a conference of chairmen of uyezd, volost and village Executive Committees of the Soviets of Moscow Gubernia.
October 16	Lenin telegraphs instructions to Frunze on preparations for capture of the Crimea.
October 19	Lenin writes notes on the immediate tasks of the Party after the termination of the war against Wrangel.
October 20	Lenin writes the article “A Contribution to the History of the Question of the Dictatorship”.
October 21	In a letter to the Presidium of the Petrograd Soviet, Lenin directs that scientists would be provided with additional accommodation (for study rooms and laboratories) in the distribution of flats. Lenin receives a delegation of Stavropol peasants who have brought grain for Moscow children, discusses their needs and addresses a letter to the People’s Commissariat of Food asking it to prepare, by the next morning, its conclusions as to the possibility of meeting the peasants’ requests.
October 24	Lenin telegraphs a directive to the Revolutionary Military Council of the First Cavalry Army for steps to be taken for the speedy defeat of Wrangel.
October 27	Lenin talks to a delegation of the Party Conference of Alexandrov Uyezd, Vladimir Gubernia, after learning of abuses at the Troitsky Factory, he writes a letter to the Vladimir Gubernia Committee of the Party and directs the delegation to Dzerzhinsky, head of the Central Control Commission. Lenin attends a show of a film about the operation of a new hydraulic peat-suction machine designed by engineer Klasson and then calls a conference to discuss the invention.
October 28	In a telegram to Frunze, Lenin gives directives for measures to be immediately taken for the dispatch of heavy artillery to the Crimean frontline, so as to ensure the success of the operation aimed at the liberation of the Crimea.
October 29	Lenin sends a telegram to Stalin in Baku instructing him to take urgent steps to fortify the approaches to Baku from the land and the sea.
Before November 1	Lenin writes amendments and addenda to the draft decree on the centralisation of libraries in the R.S.F.S.R.
Beginning of November	Lenin writes his theses for the resolution “The Tasks of the Trade Unions, and the Methods of Their Accomplishment” and a draft resolution for the R.C.P.(B.) group of the Fifth All-Russia Conference of Trade Unions.
November 3	Lenin delivers a speech on the main tasks of the Chief Committee for Political Education and local political education departments at an All-Russia Conference of Political Education Workers of Gubernia and Uyezd Education Departments.
November 4	Lenin writes the article “On the Struggle Within the Italian Socialist Party”.
November 6	Lenin writes to Krzhizhanovsky on the tasks of the State Commission for the Electrification of Russia. Lenin delivers a speech on the third anniversary of the October Revolution, at a joint plenum of the Moscow Soviet, the Moscow Committee of the R.C.P.(B.). and the Moscow City Trade Union Council.
November 7	Lenin delivers a speech on the third anniversary of the October Revolution, at a plenary meeting of the Sokolniki District Soviet attended by representatives of factory trade union committees.
November 9	Lenin directs a plenary meeting of the Party C.C. which discusses and approves in a preliminary way the draft theses on the tasks of trade unions, drawn up by Lenin.
November 12	Lenin sends a telegram to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern front, in which he formulates the conditions of Wrangel’s capitulation.
November 13	In a telegram to Stalin, Lenin asks about the progress of the struggle against the bands in the Caucasus and the fortification of the approaches to Baku; he also asks Stalin’s opinion as to the prospects of a peaceful settlement of relations between the R.S.F.S.R., and Georgia and Armenia. Lenin receives the chairman of the group committee of the Grozny oilfields, who has brought a message of greetings from the workers.
November 14	Lenin attends the commissioning of a power electric station in the village of Kashino in Volokolamsk Uyezd of Moscow Gubernia, talks to the peasants, and makes a speech on the importance of electrification for the country’s economy; in the evening, Lenin addresses a meeting of peasants in the People’s House in the village of Yaropolets.
November 16	Lenin has a talk with a peasant delegate from Mosalsk Uyezd of Kaluga Gubernia, makes notes of the peasants’ needs and writes to the People’s Commissariat of Food and the People’s Commissariat of Agriculture, asking for information on the possibility of satisfying the peasants’ needs.
November 18	Lenin writes his “Theses on Production Propaganda (Rough Draft)”. Lenin speaks at a meeting of delegates of Party organisations of Baumansky district in Moscow.
November 19	Lenin directs and addresses a meeting of delegates to the Moscow Gubernia Party Conference, which discusses nominations for the Moscow Committee of the R.C.P.(B.).
November 20	Lenin writes notes on the electrification of Yaropolets Volost, Volokolamsk Uyezd, Moscow Gubernia.
November 20-22	Lenin takes part in the Moscow Gubernia Party Conference.
November 21	Lenin delivers a speech on “Our Foreign and Domestic Position and the Tasks of the Party” at the Conference. Lenin speaks on the elections to the Moscow Committee of the R.C.P.(B.).
November 25	Lenin speaks on the foreign and domestic-situation of the Soviet Republic, at a conference of factory T.U. committees of Moscow printing and publishing enterprises.
November 26	Lenin speaks on concessions at a meeting of cells’ secretaries of the Moscow organisation of the R.C.P.(B.).
November 29	Lenin writes to Lunacharsky on the reorganisation of the People’s Commissariat of Education. Lenin reports on the results of the work of the Moscow Gubernia Party Conference at a general meeting of Communists of Zamoskvorechye district and closes the debate on his report.
December 2	Lenin sends a telegram to the Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Committee of Armenia conveying greetings to Soviet Armenia on her liberation from the imperialist yoke.
December 6	Lenin speaks on concessions at a meeting of activists of the Moscow Party organisation. Lenin sends greetings to the All-Russia Conference of Gubernia Departments for Work Among Women.
December 8	Lenin directs a plenary meeting of the Party C.C. which discusses the conflict between water transport workers and the Central Committee of the Railway and Water Transport Union. The meeting approves Lenin’s proposal for calling the Tenth Party Congress on February 6, 1921. Lenin directs a plenary meeting of the Party C.C., submits his theses on production propaganda, and writes a draft decision of the C.C. “Statute of the People’s Commissariat of Education”.
December 11	Lenin writes the epilogue “False Talk on Freedom” to his article “On the Struggle Within the Italian Socialist Party”.
December 16	Lenin reports on the foreign and domestic situation of the Soviet Republic, at a meeting of the peasants of the village of Modenovo, Bogorodsk Volost, Vereya Uyezd, Moscow Gubernia. Lenin sends a telegram to the Vladikavkaz Revolutionary Committee instructing it to take urgent steps to provide Civil War refugees with permanent housing.
Between December 19 and 21	At Gorki Lenin works on the plan of his report on the work of the Council of People’s Commissars for the Eighth All-Russia Congress of Soviets. In a letter to Krzhizhanovsky, Lenin outlines practical measures for the electrification of Russia.
December 21	Lenin reports on concessions at a meeting of the Communist group of the Eighth All-Russia Congress of Soviets. After the report, he replies to the questions from delegates.
December 22-29	The Eighth All-Russia Congress of Soviets is held. Its work is directed by Lenin.
December 22	The first session of the Congress elects Lenin to the Presidium; Lenin reports on the work of the Council of People’s Commissars. Lenin speaks on the foreign and home policy of the Soviet Government, at a meeting of the Communist group of the Congress. Lenin attends a conference of non-Party peasant delegates to the Eighth Congress of Soviets.
December 23	Lenin closes the debate on his report on the work of the Council of People’s Commissars, at the second session of the Congress.
December 24	Lenin addresses the Communist group of the Congress.
December 27	Lenin addresses the Communist group of the Congress during the debate on the draft law on measures to strengthen and develop peasant farming and replies to the questions of delegates.
December 29	The seventh session of the Congress adopts Lenin’s resolution on the report on electrification. The seventh session of the Congress elects Lenin member of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee (Eighth Convocation).
December 30	Lenin delivers a speech on the trade unions, the current situation, and Trotsky’s mistakes, at a joint meeting of R.C.P.(B.) members elected delegates to the Eighth Congress of Soviets, members of the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions, and the Moscow City Council of Trade Unions.
December 31	The plenary meeting of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee (Eighth Convocation) elects Lenin Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars.
December	Lenin writes to Krzhizhanovsky on the drawing up of a plan for supplying electricity to every house in the R.S.F.S.R.

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1920

December 30	Lenin addresses a joint meeting of Communist delegates to the Eighth Congress of Soviets, Communist members of the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions and Communist members of the Moscow City Council of Trade Unions, and speaks on the trade unions, the present situation and Trotsky’s mistakes.
December 31	The first sitting of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, elected by the Eighth Congress of Soviets, unanimously confirms Lenin as Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars.