J. V. Stalin
Source : Works, Vol. 3,
November, 1917 - 1920
Publisher : Foreign Languages Publishing House,
Moscow, 1953
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October 25-26
V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin direct the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies.
October 26
The Second Congress of Soviets elects J. V. Stalin a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (A.R.C.E.C.) and appoints him People's Commissar for the Affairs of Nationalities.
Night of October 27
V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin visit the headquarters of the Petrograd Military Area and together with military experts work out a plan of operations for routing the Kerensky-Krasnov forces.
October 28
V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin sign the order of the Council of People's Commissars banning the publication of bourgeois newspapers.
October 31
At a meeting of the Revolutionary Military Committee, J. V. Stalin reports on the situation at the front.
November 2
V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin sign the "Declaration of Rights of the Peoples of Russia," drafted by J. V. Stalin.
November 3
J. V. Stalin speaks in the discussion at a conference of representatives of political parties, the Putilov workers and the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Railwaymen's Union (Vikzhel).
November 6
J. V. Stalin speaks at a meeting of the A.R.C.E.C. on the formation of an "All-Socialist Government."
November 9
V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin sign an order dismissing General Dukhonin from the post of Supreme Commander.
November 11
J. V. Stalin addresses a Congress of the Finnish Social-Democratic Labour Party in Helsingfors.
November 16
At a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars, J. V. Stalin proposes the restitution of Ukrainian historic treasures to the Ukrainian people. He is appointed a member of a commission to draft a decree instituting revolutionary courts.
November 19
J. V. Stalin makes reports in the Council of People's Commissars: 1) On trade with Finland, and 2) On the Ukraine and the Rada.
November 20
J. V. Stalin submits to the Council of People's Commissars the draft of an appeal by the Soviet Government "To All the Toiling Moslems of Russia and the East." He makes a report to the Council of People's Commissars on the counter-revolutionary activities of the Constituent Assembly Electoral Commission.
November 22
J. V. Stalin speaks on the banning of counterrevolutionary newspapers at a meeting of the Revolutionary Military Committee.
November 27
At a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars, J. V. Stalin speaks on the implementation of the financial and economic policy of the socialist state.
Not earlier than November 27
V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin draw up a summarized programme of peace negotiations.
November 28
V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin sign a "Decree for the Arrest of Leaders of the Civil War Against the Revolution," drafted by V. I. Lenin.
November 29
The Central Committee of the Party sets up a Bureau of the C.C., to which V. I. Lenin, J. V. Stalin and Y. M. Sverdlov are appointed.
December 1
J. V. Stalin discusses with the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the All-Russian Moslem Council the restitution of the "Sacred Koran of Osman" to the Moslems.
December 2
At a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars, J. V. Stalin makes reports on the Ukraine and on organizing a Congress of Soviets of Byelorussia.
December 5
Pravda publishes a decree, signed by V. I. Lenin, J. V. Stalin and Y. M. Sverdlov, establishing a Supreme Council of National Economy.
J. V. Stalin signs an agreement with representatives of the Byelorussian Regional Committee on joint action for the consolidation of Soviet power in Byelorussia.
December 12
J. V. Stalin writes the article "Reply to Ukrainian Comrades in the Rear and at the Front."
December 1
At a meeting of the A.R.C.E.C., J. V. Stalin makes a report on relations with the Ukrainian Rada.
December 16
J. V. Stalin makes reports at a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars on the situation in Orenburg, the Urals, Turkestan and the Caucasus.
December 18
V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin sign a decree recognizing the independence of Finland.
J. V. Stalin makes a report at a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars on the military situation in the Orenburg area.
December 19
At a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars, J. V. Stalin makes a report on the Ukrainian Central Rada.
December 21
V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin attend a meeting of the All-Russian Collegium for Formation of a Red Army.
December 22
At a meeting of the A.R.C.E.C., J. V. Stalin makes a report on the question of the independence of Finland.
December 23
J. V. Stalin is appointed temporary Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars during V. I. Lenin's absence on leave.
December 24
J. V. Stalin presides at a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars and makes reports on the situation in the Don area, on the Congress of Toiling Cossacks, and on the preparations for an offensive of the revolutionary detachments against Orenburg.
December 27
A meeting of the Council of People's Commissars under the chairmanship of J. V. Stalin resolves to nationalize the Putilov Works and issues a decree for the confiscation of the Anatra aircraft works in Simferopol and other plants.
December 27 and 28
J. V. Stalin confers with Left-wing delegates of the Don Cossack Assembly and a representative of the 8th Cossack Division.
December 31
J. V. Stalin's article, "Turkish Armenia," is published in Pravda, No. 227.
The same issue of Pravda contains the Decree on "Turkish Armenia," drafted by J. V. Stalin and signed by V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin.
January 8
The Council of People's Commissars appoints J. V. Stalin a member of a commission for working out measures in regard to the food policy of the Soviet Government.
January 10-18
J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Third All-Russian Congress of Soviets.
January 11
At a meeting of the Central Committee of the Party, J. V. Stalin speaks in support of V. I. Lenin's proposal for the conclusion of peace with the Germans.
January 15
J. V. Stalin makes a report at a meeting of the Bolshevik group at the Third Congress of Soviets on a Federation of Soviet Republics.
At the Third Congress of Soviets, J. V. Stalin makes a report on the national question and replies to the discussion. The congress approves a resolution on federal institutions of the Russian Republic, moved by J. V. Stalin.
January 24
At a meeting of the Central Committee of the Party where the convening of the Seventh Party Congress is discussed, J. V. Stalin speaks in favour of revising the Programme of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.).
January 28
On instructions of the C.C. of the Bolshevik Party, J. V. Stalin conducts a conference of members of the revolutionary wings of a number of socialist parties of Europe and America.
V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin send a telegram to the Soviet peace delegation in Brest-Litovsk on the need for the immediate conclusion of peace with Germany.
February 21(8) 1
In connection with the offensive launched by the German army, V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin issue a directive to the Petrograd city and district committees of the Bolshevik Party to organize resistance to the German invaders and to mobilize the bourgeoisie to dig trenches under the control of the workers. A similar directive is sent by J. V. Stalin to the Bolsheviks in Kiev.
February 23
At a meeting of the Central Committee of the Party, J. V. Stalin supports V. I. Lenin against Trotsky and Bukharin on the subject of the Brest peace.
February 29
In a communication by direct wire to the People's Secretariat of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, J. V. Stalin instructs it to send a peace delegation to Brest and outlines the tactics the delegation should pursue in its negotiations with the German imperialists.
Not earlier than March 2
In a conversation by direct wire with the Chairman of the Murmansk Soviet, V. I. Lenin
and J. V. Stalin insist on the adoption of urgent diplomatic measures to prevent the occupation of Murmansk by Britain and France.
March 6-8
J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Seventh Congress of the R.C.P.(B.).
March 8
The Seventh Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) elects J. V. Stalin a member of the Party Central Committee and appoints him to the commission for drafting a new Party programme.
Before March 10
J. V. Stalin is elected a delegate from the Petrograd Soviet to the Fourth Extraordinary All-Russian Congress of Soviets.
March 10
J. V. Stalin removes to Moscow together with the Government.
March 14
J. V. Stalin's article, "The Ukrainian Knot," appears in Izvestia, No. 47.
In a letter to G. K. Ordjonikidze, Commissar Extraordinary in the Ukraine, V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin demand the formation of a united fighting front of the Crimea and the Donets Basin with all Russia to resist the advance of the German forces of occupation.
March 14-16
J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Fourth Extraordinary All-Russian Congress of Soviets.
March 16
The Fourth Extraordinary All-Russian Congress of Soviets elects J. V. Stalin to the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
March 19
In a letter to S. Shaumyan and A. Djaparidze, J. V. Stalin urges the necessity of strengthening the military defences of Baku.
March 26 and 27
J. V. Stalin's article, "Transcaucasian Counter-revolutionaries Under a Socialist Mask," appears in Pravda, Nos. 55 and 56.
Night of March 30
J. V. Stalin speaks by direct wire with the Chairman of the Tashkent Soviet on the situation in Turkestan.
April 1
The Bolshevik group of the A.R.C.E.C. elects J. V. Stalin to the commission for drafting the first Constitution of the Russian Soviet Republic.
April 2
At a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars, J. V. Stalin recommends, in connection with the German advance on Kharkov, that peace negotiations be immediately started with the Ukrainian Central Rada.
April 3 and 4
An interview with J. V. Stalin on the organization of a Russian Federal Republic is published in Pravda, Nos. 62 and 63.
April 5
J. V. Stalin speaks at the first meeting of the commission set up by the A.R.C.E.C. for drafting the Constitution of the R.S.F.S.R.
April 9
Pravda, No. 67, publishes a message of J. V. Stalin to the Kazan, Ufa, Orenburg, Turkestan and other Soviets under the title "One Immediate Task."
April 12
J. V. Stalin makes a report in the Constitution Drafting Commission on the type of federation of the Russian Soviet Republic.
April 19
J. V. Stalin's draft on "General Provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic" is discussed and approved by the Constitution Drafting Commission.
April 27
The Council of People's Commissars appoints J. V. Stalin plenipotentiary representative of the R.S.F.S.R. for the negotiation of a peace treaty with the Ukrainian Central Rada.
April 29
J. V. Stalin arrives with a delegation in Kursk.
Not earlier than May 2
J. V. Stalin leaves Kursk for Moscow to report to the Council of People's Commissars.
May 5
V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin send a wireless message to Voronezh, Rostov and Bryansk regarding the conclusion of a truce on the Ukrainian Front.
May 10-16
J. V. Stalin conducts a conference on the convening of a constituent congress of Soviets of the Tatar-Bashkir Soviet Republic and delivers speeches at the opening and closing of the conference.
May 23
J. V. Stalin's article, "The Situation in the Caucasus," is printed in Pravda, No. 100.
May 29
The Council of People's Commissars appoints J. V. Stalin General Director of Food Affairs in South Russia and vests him with extraordinary powers.
June 1
J. V. Stalin's article, "The Don and the North Caucasus (Machinations and the Facts)," is printed in Pravda, No. 108.
June 4
J. V. Stalin leaves Moscow for Tsaritsyn
June 6
J. V. Stalin arrives in Tsaritsyn.
June 7
In a telegram to V. I. Lenin, J. V. Stalin informs him of the measures taken to get the transport system going, to establish revolutionary order in Tsaritsyn, and to dispatch grain to the centre.
June 13
J. V. Stalin wires V. I. Lenin informing him of the improvement in the transport system and of the plan for the procurement of grain and its dispatch to Moscow.
June 25
J. V. Stalin arrives in Kamyshin to restore the transport system and to organize the dispatch of food.
June 29
J. V. Stalin informs V. I. Lenin by direct wire from Tsaritsyn that a number of through trains with food have left for the North.
July 7
V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin exchange telegrams on the revolt of the "Left" Socialist-Revolutionaries.
In a letter to V. I. Lenin, J. V. Stalin informs him of the military situation in the Tsaritsyn area and about Turkestan.
July 8
J. V. Stalin writes to S. Shaumyan in Baku on the home and foreign policies of the R.S.F.S.R. and Azerbaijan.
July 10
In a letter to V. I. Lenin, J. V. Stalin protests against the orders of Trotsky which were leading to the collapse of the Tsaritsyn Front and the loss of the North Caucasian region.
July 15
J. V. Stalin wires the People's Commissariat of Military Affairs urging the rendering of immediate aid to Soviet Turkestan.
July 17
After an inspection of the Tsaritsyn Front, J. V. Stalin wires V. I. Lenin reporting his findings.
July 18
J. V. Stalin informs V. I. Lenin by direct wire that between July 12 and 16 five train loads of food have been sent to Moscow.
July 19
A Military Council of the North Caucasian Military Area is set up, headed by J. V. Stalin
July 20
In a telegram to S. Shaumyan, J. V. Stalin on behalf of the A.R.C.E.C. and the Council of People's Commissars, insists that the Baku Soviet pursue an independent foreign policy and vigorously combat agents of foreign capitalism.
July 24
J. V. Stalin discusses with V. I. Lenin by direct wire the food situation in Moscow and Petrograd.
August 4
In a letter to V. I. Lenin, J. V. Stalin informs him of the military and food situation in the South.
August 6
J. V. Stalin signs an order of the North Caucasian Military Council on the re-organization of all agencies engaged in supplying the front.
August 8
J. V. Stalin and K. E. Voroshilov, who are at Kotelnikovo Station, give orders to the con-mander of the southern sector of the Tsaritsyn Front for the transfer of forces in connection with the offensive of the Krasnov bands.
August 13
J. V. Stalin signs an order of the Military Council proclaiming a state of siege in the city and Gubernia of Tsaritsyn.
August 14
J. V. Stalin signs an order of the Military Council mobilizing the bourgeois of Tsaritsyn for the digging of trenches.
August 17
J. V. Stalin wires to Parkhomenko in Moscow informing him that the situation on the Tsa-ritsyn Front has improved.
August 19
J. V. Stalin and K. E. Voroshilov are at Sarepta in connection with the military operations at the front.
August 24
J. V. Stalin and K. E. Voroshilov sign the operations order for the offensive on the Tsaritsyn Front.
August 26
In connection with the need for armoured cars at the front, J. V. Stalin and K. E. Voroshilov sign an order for the re-organization of the Tsaritsyn ordnance works.
August 31
J. V. Stalin and K. E. Voroshilov send a telegram to Y. M. Sverdlov, Chairman of the A.R.C.E.C., in connection with the villainous attempt on the life of V. I. Lenin.
September 6
J. V. Stalin informs the Council of People's Commissars by wire of the success of the Soviet offensive in the Tsaritsyn area.
September 8
J. V. Stalin wires V. I. Lenin informing him that a counter-revolutionary revolt of the Gruzoles Regiment organized in Tsaritsyn by the Socialist-Revolutionaries has been suppressed.
September 10
At a meeting in Tsaritsyn, J. V. Stalin, on behalf of the Council of People's Commissars and the North Caucasian Military Council, congratulates the regiments which distinguished themselves in action at Tsaritsyn and presents them with banners inscribed: "For Military Valour."
September 12
J. V. Stalin leaves for Moscow to report to V. I. Lenin on the situation on the Southern Front.
September 15
V. I. Lenin, Y. M. Sverdlov and J. V. Stalin confer on questions concerning the Tsaritsyn Front.
September 17
J. V. Stalin is appointed Chairman of the newly-formed Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front.
September 19
J. V. Stalin examines questions of the composition and activities of the Collegium of the People's Commissariat for the Affairs of Nationalities.
V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin wire congratulations to the revolutionary troops of the Tsaritsyn Front.
September 21
Izvestia publishes an interview with J. V. Stalin on the situation on the Tsaritsyn Front.
September 22
J. V. Stalin returns to Tsaritsyn from Moscow.
September 28
J. V. Stalin presides at the first meeting of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front, where the question is discussed of dividing the military units of the front into four armies.
October 3
J. V. Stalin and K. E. Voroshilov send a telegram to V. I. Lenin demanding that the Central Committee discuss the activities of Trotsky which menace the Southern Front with collapse.
October 6
J. V. Stalin again leaves for Moscow.
October 8
By decision of the Council of People's Commissars J. V. Stalin is appointed a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic.
October 11
J. V. Stalin returns to Tsaritsyn from Moscow.
J. V. Stalin informs Y. M. Sverdlov by direct wire of the situation on the Tsaritsyn Front.
October 16
A "Letter to the Poor Peasants of the Don," signed by J. V. Stalin and other members of the Military Council, is printed in the newspaper Soldat Revolutsii, No. 58.
October 18
J. V. Stalin wires V. I. Lenin informing him of the rout of Krasnov's armies at Tsaritsyn.
October 19
J. V. Stalin leaves Tsaritsyn for Moscow.
October 22
J. V. Stalin wires congratulations to the revolutionary regiments which routed the white-guard forces at Tsaritsyn.
At the Second Congress of the Ukrainian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) J. V. Stalin is elected a member of its Central Committee.
October 29
J. V. Stalin addresses a plenary meeting of the Moscow Soviet on the situation on the Southern Front.
J. V. Stalin's article, "The Logic of Facts (In Reference to the ‘Theses' of the Central Committee of the Mensheviks)," is printed in Pravda, No. 234.
November 6
J. V. Stalin's article, "The October Revolution (October 24 and 25, 1917, in Petrograd)," is printed in Pravda, No. 241.
November 6-9
J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Sixth Extraordinary All-Russian Congress of Soviets.
November 9
The Sixth Extraordinary All-Russian Congress of Soviets elects J. V. Stalin a member of the A.R.C.E.C.
November 11
On behalf of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.), J. V. Stalin greets the First Congress of Moslem Communists in Moscow.
November 13
The All-Russian Central Executive Committee elects J. V. Stalin a member of its Presidium.
November 17
J. V. Stalin's article, "Partition Wall," is printed in Zhizn Natsionalnostei, No. 2.
November 24
J. V. Stalin's article, "Don't Forget the East," is printed in Zhizn Natsionalnostei, No. 3.
November 30
J. V. Stalin is appointed a member and Vice-Chairman of the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defence.
December 1
J. V. Stalin speaks in the discussion at the first meeting of the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defence.
V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin are empowered by the Council of Defence to endorse the decisions of its commissions.
December 3
J. V. Stalin presides at a meeting of the Council of Defence commission on improving railway transport.
December 7
The Council of People's Commissars approves a decree drafted by J. V. Stalin recognizing the independence of the Estland Soviet Republic.
December 11
At a meeting of the Council of Defence, J. V. Stalin makes reports on improving railway transport, on political agitational work in, and the appointment of commissars to, divisions in process of formation, and on the quartering of military units.
December 22
J. V. Stalin's article, "Things Are Moving," is printed in Zhizn Natsionalnostei, No. 7.
December 25
J. V. Stalin discusses the state structure of Byelorussia with responsible officials of the Byelorussian National Commissariat.
J. V. Stalin gives instructions by direct wire to Myasnikov in Smolensk on the organization of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Byelorussian C.P.(B.).
December 29
J. V. Stalin reports on the food situation in the war area at a meeting of the Council of Defence.
December 30
On V. I. Lenin's recommendation, the C.C.R.C.P.(B.) decides to send J. V. Stalin to the Eastern Front.
January 1
The C.C., R.C.P.(B.) and the Council of Defence set up a Party commission of inquiry, consisting of J. V. Stalin and F. E. Dzerzhinsky, to investigate the reasons for the surrender of Perm and to adopt measures for the restoration of Party and Soviet work in the area of the Third and Second Armies of the Eastern Front.
January 5
J. V. Stalin and F. E. Dzerzhinsky arrive in Vyatka.
In a letter to V. I. Lenin written from Vyatka, J. V. Stalin and F. E. Dzerzhinsky urge the sending of reinforcements to the Third Army.
Night of January 6
J. V. Stalin and F. E. Dzerzhinsky leave for the headquarters of the Third Army in Glazov.
January 7
J. V. Stalin and F. E. Dzerzhinsky instruct the Regional Party Committee in Vyatka to mobilize Communists for the front.
January 13
J. V. Stalin and F. E. Dzerzhinsky send V. I. Lenin a brief preliminary report on the results of their investigation of the causes of the Perm disaster.
January 18
J. V. Stalin and F. E. Dzerzhinsky leave Glazov for Vyatka.
January 19
J. V. Stalin addresses a joint meeting of Ural and Vyatka Party and Soviet organizations, convened by the Commission of the Central Committee of the Party and the Council of Defence, on the question of setting up a Vyatka Revolutionary Military Committee.
J. V. Stalin and F. E. Dzerzhinsky hold a conference of representatives of the People's Commissariat of Railways, the military transportation division of the Third Army and other organizations on the subject of relieving congestion at the Vyatka railway junction.
J. V. Stalin and F. E. Dzerzhinsky send V. I. Lenin a report on the measures adopted to strengthen the front and rear of the Third Army.
January 20
J. V. Stalin informs V. I. Lenin that the situation on the Eastern Front has improved.
January 21
J. V. Stalin and F. E. Dzerzhinsky leave Vyatka for Third Army headquarters in Glazov.
January 25
J. V. Stalin and F. E. Dzerzhinsky return to Vyatka from Glazov.
January 27
J. V. Stalin and F. E. Dzerzhinsky leave Vyatka for Moscow.
January 31
On their return from the Eastern Front J. V. Stalin and F. E. Dzerzhinsky present to V. I. Lenin the report of the Commission of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) and the Council of Defence.
February 9
J. V. Stalin's article, "The Government's Policy on the National Question," is printed in Izvestia, No. 30.
February 17
At a meeting of the Council of Defence, J. V. Stalin reports on the organization of through trains for transport of grain and coal.
February 22
J. V. Stalin's article, "Two Camps," appears in Izvestia, No. 41.
March 2
J. V. Stalin's article, "Our Tasks in the East," is printed in Pravda, No. 48.
March 2-6
J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the First Congress of the Communist International as a member of the delegation of the R.C.P.(B.).
March 8
At a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars J. V. Stalin makes a report on the draft decree on the re-organization of State Control.
March 9
J. V. Stalin's article, "Two Years," is printed in Pravda, No. 53, and in Zhizn Natsionalnostei, No. 8.
March 16
J. V. Stalin's article, "Imperialism's Reserves," is printed in Izvestia, No. 58.
March 18-23
J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Eighth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.).
March 19
The Eighth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) elects J. V. Stalin to the commission for the final editing of the Party Programme.
March 21
J. V. Stalin addresses the Eighth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) on the military question.
March 22
The Eighth Party Congress elects J. V. Stalin a member of the commission set up to draft the resolution on the military question.
March 23
The Eighth Party Congress elects J. V. Stalin a member of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.).
Izvestia publishes the "Agreement Between the Central Soviet Government and the Government of Bashkiria on an Autonomous Soviet Bashkir Republic," signed by V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin.
March 25
At a plenary meeting of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.), J. V. Stalin is appointed a member of the Political Bureau and of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee.
March 30
The All-Russian Central Executive Committee appoints J. V. Stalin People's Commissar of State Control.
April 3
At a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars, J. V. Stalin makes a report on a draft decree on the re-organization of State Control.
April 9
J. V. Stalin makes a report at a plenary meeting of the A.R.C.E.C. on the re-organization of State Control.
V. I. Lenin, J. V. Stalin and M. I. Kalinin sign the decree on State Control approved by the A.R.C.E.C.
April 13
J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of a plenary meeting of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.).
April 21
By decision of the Council of Defence, V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin are appointed members of a commission set up to investigate the accountancy of military property by the Extraordinary Commission for the Supply of the Red Army.
April 23
J. V. Stalin's article, "The Shooting of the Twenty-Six Baku Comrades by Agents of British Imperialism," is printed in Izvestia, No. 85.
April 30
J. V. Stalin signs an announcement "To All Citizens of the Soviet Republic" about the institution of a Central Bureau of Complaints and Applications of the People's Commissariat of State Control. The announcement is published in Izvestia, No. 97, May 8, 1919.
May 4
J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of a plenary meeting of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.).
May 5
At a meeting of the Council of Defence, J. V. Stalin reports on the results of an inspection of Soviet institutions.
May 8
V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin send a directive of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) to the Ukrainian Council of People's Commissars to increase military assistance to the Southern Front in connection with Denikin's threat to the Donbas.
May 17
In connection with Yudenich's offensive and the threat to Petrograd, the Central Committee of the Party and the Council of Defence send J. V. Stalin to the Petrograd Front.
May 19
On his arrival in Petrograd, J. V. Stalin confers with the Commander-in-Chief, the commander of the Western Front and the commander of the Seventh Army on the situation at the front.
J. V. Stalin informs V. I. Lenin by direct wire of the situation at Petrograd and the measures adopted to strengthen the front.
May 20
J. V. Stalin leaves Petrograd for the headquarters of the Western Front in Staraya Russa.
May 21
J. V. Stalin informs V. I. Lenin and the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic by direct wire of the situation in the Gat-china sector of the front.
May 22
J. V. Stalin leaves Staraya Russa for the Gat-china area, which is directly menaced by the Whites.
May 25
J. V. Stalin goes to Kronstadt to acquaint himself with the state of the Baltic Fleet.
J. V. Stalin inspects the fortifications on the Karelian sector of the front.
May 28
J. V. Stalin returns to Petrograd after his tour of the front.
May 30
J. V. Stalin confers with the Commander-in-Chief, representatives of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, and the commanders of the Western Front, the Seventh Army and the Baltic Fleet on measures for the defence of the approaches to Petrograd.
Beginning of June
J. V. Stalin appeals to the troops defending Petrograd to combat deserters and traitors at the front.
June 8-9
J. V. Stalin visits the Narva sector of the Front.
June 10
The C.C., R.C.P.(B.) instructs J. V. Stalin to take measures to centralize the control of the Western Front.
June 13
In connection with the counter-revolutionary revolt in Forts Krasnaya Gorka and Seraya Loshad, J. V. Stalin orders vessels of the Baltic Fleet to take up stations in the outer roads and turn their guns on Fort Krasnaya Gorka, and also gives instructions for the formation of a Coastal Army Group in Oranienbaum for an assault on Krasnaya Gorka from the land.
June 14
J. V. Stalin arrives in Oranienbaum and confers with representatives of the naval and army commands and commanders and commissars of the Coastal Group units on the plan for the assault on Krasnaya Gorka.
June 15
J. V. Stalin leaves Oranienbaum for the battle area to direct the operations against Fort Kras-naya Gorka.
June 16
J. V. Stalin informs V. I. Lenin of the capture of Forts Krasnaya Gorka and Seraya Lo-shad by the Red Army.
J. V. Stalin attends a meeting of sailors of the Baltic Fleet and units of the Red Army in Fort Krasnaya Gorka.
June 22
J. V. Stalin informs V. I. Lenin that the Red Army on the Petrograd Front has passed to the offensive.
June 28
J. V. Stalin sends a message of congratulation to the 1st Rifle Division and crews of the Onega Flotilla and the Baltic Fleet on the capture of Vidlitsa, the military base of the Finnish whiteguards near the borders of Finland.
July 3
J. V. Stalin arrives in Moscow
July 3-4
J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of a plenary meeting of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.).
July 5
J. V. Stalin is appointed a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front.
July 8
Pravda publishes an interview with J. V. Stalin on the situation on the Petrograd Front.
July 9
J. V. Stalin arrives at the headquarters of the Western Front in Smolensk.
July 13
J. V. Stalin confers in Minsk with members of the Lithuanian-Byelorussian Government on the question of dissolving the Government and the Minsk Council of Defence and the inclusion of their members in the agencies of the front.
July 23
J. V. Stalin signs an instruction of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front to the Petrograd and Western Area Military Commissariats to organize nodal defence points.
August 5
J. V. Stalin signs an order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front for the establishment of a Petrograd fortified area.
J. V. Stalin signs an instruction of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front to the armies of the front, ordering them to rout the Whites at the approaches to Petrograd and capture Pskov.
August 11
In a letter to V. I. Lenin, J. V. Stalin informs him of the position on the Western Front.
August 13
J. V. Stalin requests information by direct wire from G. K. Ordjonikidze as to the situation in the area of operation of the Sixteenth Army of the Western Front.
August 26
J. V. Stalin informs V. I. Lenin of the capture of Pskov by the Red Army.
August
J. V. Stalin presides at a Special Conference of responsible political workers of the Western Front on the subject of compiling "Instructions for Commissars of Regiments on Active Service."
September 2
J. V. Stalin informs V. I. Lenin that the Red Army has launched a counter-offensive at Dvinsk.
September 10
J. V. Stalin leaves Smolensk for Moscow.
September 15
J. V. Stalin returns to Smolensk.
September 25
J. V. Stalin leaves Smolensk for Moscow. September 26 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of a plenary meeting of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.). The plenary meeting of the C.C. resolves to send J. V. Stalin to the Southern Front to organize the defeat of Denikin.
September 27
J. V. Stalin is appointed a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front.
J. V. Stalin attends a meeting of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, where, on his suggestion, it is decided to form a composite division for action on the Southern Front comprised of regiments of the Western Front, and also to institute a Southern Front Formations Board.
September 28
J. V. Stalin arrives in Smolensk.
September 30
J. V. Stalin leaves Smolensk for Moscow.
October 2
J. V. Stalin attends a meeting of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic where, on his suggestion, it is decided to replenish the Latvian Division, designated for service on the Southern Front.
October 3
J. V. Stalin arrives at Southern Front headquarters in the village of Sergievskoye.
October 9
J. V. Stalin signs an instruction of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front ordering the formation of a shock force for action against Denikin's army at Orel.
October 11
J. V. Stalin leaves Sergievskoye for Serpukhov, to which the headquarters of the Southern Front have been transferred.
October 15
In a letter to V. I. Lenin, J. V. Stalin outlines a strategic plan for an offensive against Denikin from the Voronezh area in the direction of Rostov, through Kharkov and the Donbas.
October 17
J. V. Stalin signs an instruction of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front to the Fourteenth Army, ordering the capture of Orel. Orel was taken by the Red Army on October 20.
October 20
J. V. Stalin signs an instruction of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front to the armies of the Front, ordering the pursuit of Denikin's retreating armies, with the delivery of the main blow in the direction of Kursk.
October 25
J. V. Stalin informs V. I. Lenin of the rout near Voronezh of Shkuro's and Mamontov's Cavalry Corps by Budyonny's Cavalry Corps, and of the capture of Voronezh by the Red Army.
October 30
J. V. Stalin leaves Serpukhov for the battle area of the Southern front.
November 3
J. V. Stalin returns to Serpukhov after his visit to the front.
November 4
J. V. Stalin leaves for Moscow.
November 6
J. V. Stalin attends a meeting of the Political Bureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.), where a resolution on replenishments for the Southern Front is adopted on his motion.
November 9
J. V. Stalin returns to Southern Front headquarters in Serpukhov.
J. V. Stalin signs an instruction of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front for pressing the offensive along the whole front and for routing the Kursk group of Denikin's forces.
November 11
On J. V. Stalin's proposal, the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front resolves to form a Cavalry Army.
Early half of November
J. V. Stalin directs the compiling of instructions for the inspection of the organization of Soviet power in the liberated areas, and instructions to Revolutionary Committees in the area of the Southern Front.
November 16
J. V. Stalin leaves for Moscow.
November 17
J. V. Stalin attends a meeting of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic where the question of forming a Cavalry Army is discussed.
November 18
J. V. Stalin returns to Southern Front headquarters in Serpukhov.
November 19
J. V. Stalin signs an order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front re-naming the First Cavalry Corps the Cavalry Army.
November 21
J. V. Stalin attends a preliminary conference in Moscow, presided over by V. I. Lenin, of delegates to the Second All-Russian Congress of Communist Organizations of the Peoples of the East.
November 22
J. V. Stalin makes a speech at the opening of the Second All-Russian Congress of Communist Organizations of the Peoples of the East.
November 27
The Presidium of the A.R.C.E.C. confers on J. V. Stalin the Order of the Red Banner for his services in the defence of Petrograd and selfless efforts on the Southern Front.
J. V. Stalin leaves Serpukhov for the battle area of the Southern Front.
November 29
J. V. Stalin arrives in Voronezh.
December 5
J. V. Stalin arrives at Kastornaya station. From there he proceeds to Stary Oskol.
December 6
J. V. Stalin arrives at the village of Ve-liko-Mikhailovka, near Novy Oskol, in the area of operation of the First Cavalry Army.
At a joint meeting of the Revolutionary Military Councils of the Southern Front and the First Cavalry Army, J. V. Stalin outlines the latter's tasks in carrying out the plan for the defeat of Denikin.
December 6-7
J. V. Stalin familiarizes himself with the state of the units of the Cavalry Army and the course of military operations.
December 7
J. V. Stalin and S. M. Budyonny inspect the battlefield near Veliko-Mikhailovka.
December 8
J. V. Stalin arrives in Novy Oskol.
December 9
The Seventh All-Russian Congress of Soviets elects J. V. Stalin a member of the A.R.C.E.C.
December 10
J. V. Stalin arrives in Voronezh.
December 12
After his inspection of the front, J. V. Stalin returns to Southern Front headquarters in Serpukhov.
J. V. Stalin signs an instruction of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front to the armies of the front for the capture of Kiev and the Donbas.
December 13
J. V. Stalin leaves Serpukhov for Moscow.
December 17
J. V. Stalin returns to Serpukhov from Moscow.
December 18
The newspaper Petrogradskaya Pravda publishes a message sent on behalf of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front by J. V. Stalin to the workers of Petrograd, thanking them for their assistance to the Southern Front.
December 26
J. V. Stalin writes his article, "The Military Situation in the South," which is published in Pravda, No. 293, December 28.
December 29
J. V. Stalin leaves Serpukhov for Moscow.
January 3
J. V. Stalin arrives in Orel.
J. V. Stalin signs an instruction of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front to the armies of the front for the capture of Rostov.
January 5
J. V. Stalin arrives at Southern Front headquarters in Kursk.
January 10
J. V. Stalin informs V. I. Lenin of the capture of Rostov by Budyonny's Cavalry.
J. V. Stalin signs an order of the day of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front congratulating the armies of the front on the defeat of Denikin's armies and the capture of the Donbas and Rostov.
January 11
J. V. Stalin leaves Kursk for the area of operations of the Fourteenth Army of the South-Western Front. 2
January 13
J. V. Stalin signs an instruction of the Revolutionary Military Council of the South-Western Front to the armies of the front for the pursuit of Denikin's armies retreating to the Black Sea ports.
January 14
J. V. Stalin returns to Kursk after his visit to the front.
January 15
J. V. Stalin leaves Kursk for Moscow.
January 20
At a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars, J. V. Stalin makes a report on the "Statute of the Ukrainian Labour Army Council." The C.P.C. endorses the "Statute" and appoints J. V. Stalin Chairman of the Ukrainian Labour Army Council.
February 2
J. V. Stalin arrives from Moscow at the headquarters of the South-Western Front in Kursk.
February 7
The A.R.C.E.C. appoints J. V. Stalin a member of a commission of the Presidium of the A.R.C.E.C. set up to work out problems concerning the federal structure of the R.S.F.S.R.
February 10
J. V. Stalin arrives in Kharkov with the transfer to that city of the Revolutionary Military Council and headquarters of the SouthWestern Front.
February 12
J. V. Stalin conducts a preliminary conference of members of the Ukrainian Labour Army Council.
February 13
J. V. Stalin informs V. I. Lenin by direct wire of the measures adopted for the formation of the Ukrainian Labour Army.
February 16
J. V. Stalin presides at the first meeting of the Ukrainian Labour Army Council and reports on the constitution of the Council and its tasks.
February 20
J. V. Stalin signs decisions of the Ukrainian Labour Army Council on the militarization of the Donbas coal industry and on the supply of prime necessities to the workers.
March 7
In an order of the day to the Ukrainian Labour Army, J. V. Stalin calls on the men, commanders and commissars of the 42nd Division, which has been incorporated in the Ukrainian Labour Army, to win the battle for coal.
March 9
J. V. Stalin conducts a conference of members of the Ukrainian Labour Army Council, the Ukrainian Council of People's Commissars and other organizations on problems of food supply.
March 15
J. V. Stalin conducts an emergency meeting of the Ukrainian Labour Army Council in connection with V. I. Lenin's proposal on delimiting the boundaries of the Donets Gubernia.
March 17-23
J. V. Stalin directs the Fourth All-Ukrainian Conference of the Ukrainian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in Kharkov.
March 17
J. V. Stalin delivers a speech at the opening of the Fourth All-Ukrainian Conference of the Ukr.C.P.(B.).
March 19
J. V. Stalin makes a report on economic policy at the Fourth All-Ukrainian Conference of the Ukr.C.P.(B.).
March 20
J. V. Stalin replies to the discussion of his report on economic policy at the Fourth All-Ukrainian Conference of the Ukr.C.P.(B.).
March 23
The Fourth All-Ukrainian Conference of the Ukr.C.P.(B.) elects J. V. Stalin a delegate to the Ninth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.).
J. V. Stalin delivers a speech at the closing of the conference.
J. V. Stalin leaves Kharkov for Moscow.
March 29-April 5
J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Ninth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.).
April 1
At the Ninth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.), J. V. Stalin is elected to a commission set up to draft the resolution on the question of the trade unions and their organization.
April 4
The Ninth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) elects J. V. Stalin a member of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.).
April 5
At a plenary meeting of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.), J. V. Stalin is appointed a member of the Political Bureau and the Organizing Bureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.).
April 16
J. V. Stalin makes a communication on the state of the Donets coal industry at a meeting of the Council of Labour and Defence.
April 23
J. V. Stalin's article, "Lenin as the Organizer and Leader of the Russian Communist Party," appears in Pravda, No. 86.
J. V. Stalin delivers a speech at a meeting called by the Moscow Committee of the R.C.P.(B.) on the occasion of V. I. Lenin's fiftieth birthday.
April 29-May 2
V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin participate in drawing up the theses of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) on the organization of agitational work in connection with the war with Poland.
May 4
The Council of People's Commissars appoints J. V. Stalin Chairman of a commission on the establishment of an Autonomous Tatar Soviet Republic.
May 10
The Council of Labour and Defence appoints J. V. Stalin Chairman of a commission on the supply of clothing to the armies of the Western Front.
May 14
J. V. Stalin makes a report on the supply of clothing to the armies of the Western Front at a meeting of the Council of Labour and Defence.
The Council of Labour and Defence appoints J. V. Stalin Chairman of a commission on the supply of cartridges, rifles and machine guns to the army and on measures for increasing the output of the small arms and ammunition factories.
May 17
J. V. Stalin conducts a meeting of the commission on the supply of cartridges, rifles and machine guns and on measures for increasing the output of the small arms and ammunition factories.
May 20
Izvestia publishes "Instructions Concerning the Procedure of Election of Workers and Peasants to, and Their Participation in, the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection," signed by J. V. Stalin as People's Commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection.
May 21
At a meeting of the Council of Labour and Defence, J. V. Stalin reports on the results of the work of the commission on the supply of cartridges, rifles and machine guns to the army.
May 25 and 26
J. V. Stalin's article, "The Entente's New Campaign Against Russia," is published in Pravda, Nos. 111 and 112.
May 26
In connection with Poland's attack on the Soviet Republic, the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) sends J. V. Stalin to the South-Western Front.
May 27
J. V. Stalin arrives at the headquarters of the South Western Front in Kharkov.
May 29
J. V. Stalin wires V. I. Lenin informing him of the measures adopted to strengthen the Crimean sector of the South-Western Front.
J. V. Stalin leaves Kharkov for Kremenchug.
May 31
J. V. Stalin informs V. I. Lenin of the situation on the South-Western Front.
J. V. Stalin signs an instruction of the Revolutionary Military Council of the South-Western Front to the Command of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Armies on measures for the defence of Odessa.
Early June
J. V. Stalin confers with commanders of the First Cavalry Army in Kremenchug and discusses the situation at the front and the plan of operations of the Cavalry Army.
June 3
J. V. Stalin signs an instruction of the Revolutionary Military Council of the South-Western Front to the Commander of the First Cavalry Army to demolish the Kiev group of the Polish armies.
June 12
In a letter to V. I. Lenin, J. V. Stalin comments on V. I. Lenin's draft theses on the national and colonial question for the Second Congress of the Communist International.
J. V. Stalin informs V. I. Lenin of the capture of Kiev by the Red Army.
June 20
J. V. Stalin returns to Kharkov from Kremen-chug.
June 24
J. V. Stalin leaves for Sinelnikovo, in the Crimean sector of the South-Western Front.
The Kharkov newspaper Kommunist publishes an interview given by J. V. Stalin to a Ukrainian ROSTA correspondent on the situation on the South-Western Front.
July 3
J. V. Stalin returns to Kharkov from Sinelnikovo.
July 7
J. V. Stalin leaves for Moscow.
Prior to July 11
J. V. Stalin confers with the Commander-in-Chief, the Chief of the Field Staff and the Vice-Chairman of the RevolutionaryMilitary Council of the Republic on the sending of reinforcements to the Crimean sector of the South Western Front.
July 11
Pravda publishes an interview with J. V. Stalin on the situation on the Polish Front.
July 12
J. V. Stalin returns from Moscow to South-Western Front headquarters in Kharkov.
July 14
J. V. Stalin leaves for Volnovakha, in the Crimean sector of the front.
July 16
J. V. Stalin goes to Mariupol to acquaint himself with the state of the Azov fleet.
A plenary meeting of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) approves the measures proposed by J. V. Stalin for the defeat of Wrangel. V. I. Lenin informs J. V. Stalin of this.
Prior to July 19
J. V. Stalin drafts a letter of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) to Party organizations on the mobilization of Communists for the Crimean Front. On V. I. Lenin's proposal, the letter is circulated to the Party organizations.
July 19
J. V. Stalin arrives in Lozovaya from Volnovakha.
July 20
J. V. Stalin returns to Kharkov after his visit o the front.
July 31
J. V. Stalin leaves for Lozovaya.
August 2
V. I. Lenin informs J. V. Stalin of a decision of the Political Bureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) to establish an independent front against Wran-gel. The Political Bureau instructs J. V. Stalin to set up a Revolutionary Military Council of this front and concentrate attention on this sector.
August 7
J. V. Stalin informs V. I. Lenin that the Red Army has forced the Dnieper and occupied Alyoshki, Kakhovka and other points on the left bank of the river.
August 9
J. V. Stalin arrives in Alexandrovsk from Lozovaya.
August 14
J. V. Stalin returns to Kharkov after his visit to the front.
August 17
J. V. Stalin leaves for Moscow.
August 19
V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin send instructions on measures for assisting the Crimean Front to the Central Committee of the Ukr.C.P.(B.), the Caucasian and Siberian Bureaus of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.), the Petrograd Committee of the R.C.P.(B.) and the Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front.
August 25
In a memorandum to the Political Bureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.), J. V. Stalin submits a programme for the creation of fighting reserves of the Republic..
September 22-25
J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Ninth All-Russian Conference of the R.C.P.(B.).
September 22
J. V. Stalin speaks in the discussion on the report of the Central Committee at the Ninth All-Russian Conference of the R.C.P.(B.).
October 10
J. V. Stalin's article, "The Policy of the Soviet Government on the National Question in Russia," is printed in Pravda, No. 226.
October 15
J. V. Stalin delivers a speech at the opening of the First All-Russian Conference of Responsible Personnel of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection.
October 16
On the instructions of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.), J. V. Stalin leaves for the North Caucasus and Azerbaijan.
October 18
J. V. Stalin arrives in Rostov-on-Don and acquaints himself with the state of Party work.
October 21
J. V. Stalin arrives in Vladikavkaz.
October 26
J. V. Stalin sends a report to the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) and V. I. Lenin on the situation in the Caucasus.
October 27-29
J. V. Stalin directs the work of a regional conference of Communist organizations of the Don and the Caucasus, held in Vladikavkaz.
October 27
At the regional conference of Communist organizations of the Don and the Caucasus, J. V. Stalin delivers a report on the "Political Situation of the Republic."
October 30
J. V. Stalin leaves Vladikavkaz for Baku.
November 4
J. V. Stalin attends a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Azerbaijan Communist Party and members of the Caucasian Bureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) on the negotiations with Georgia and the situation in Armenia.
November 6
J. V. Stalin delivers an address on "Three Years of Proletarian Dictatorship" at a celebration meeting of the Baku Soviet.
November 9
J. V. Stalin makes a report on the tasks of Party and Soviet work in Azerbaijan at a joint meeting of the C.C., Azerbaijan C.P.(B.), the Caucasian Bureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.), and Baku Party and Soviet organizations.
November 12
J. V. Stalin arrives in Temir-Khan-Shura.
November 13
J. V. Stalin makes a report at a meeting of Party functionaries on the tasks of Party and Soviet bodies in connection with the granting of autonomy to Daghestan.
J. V. Stalin makes a declaration on Soviet autonomy for Daghestan at a Congress of the Peoples of Daghestan.
November 16
J. V. Stalin arrives in Vladikavkaz.
November 17
J. V. Stalin makes a report at a Congress of the Peoples of the Terek region on "Soviet Autonomy for the Terek region."
J. V. Stalin receives a number of delegates to the Congress of the Peoples of the Terek region, members of the Cossack-peasant group.
November 20
J. V. Stalin leaves Vladikavkaz for Moscow.
November 30
Pravda publishes an interview with J. V. Stalin on the situation in the Caucasus.
December 4
J. V. Stalin's article, "Long Live Soviet Armenia!" is printed in Pravda, No. 273.
December 22-29
J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Eighth All-Russian Congress of Soviets.
December 29
The Eighth All-Russian Congress of Soviets elects J. V. Stalin a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
December 31
The A.R.C.E.C. elects J. V. Stalin a member of its Presidium.
1. From February 21(8) on, the dates in the Biographical Chronicle are New Style.
2. On January 10, 1920, the Southern Front was re-named the South-Western Front.