Beginning of January J. V. Stalin has an interview with the
members of the editorial board of Krasnaya Molodyozh on the tasks of
that magazine. A report of the interview was published in Krasnaya Molodyozh,
No. 1 (5), January 1925.
January 5 J. V. Stalin has an interview with students of the
Stalino (Yuzovka) Party School who had come on an excursion to Moscow.
J. V. Stalin writes the appeal "Working Women and Peasant Women,
Remember and Carry Out Ilyich's Behests!" The appeal was published
in the magazine Rabotnitsa (Working Woman), No. 1, January 1925.
January 6 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to the All-Union Teachers'
Congress. The letter was published in Uchitelskaya Gazeta (Teacher's
Newspaper), No. 2, January 10, 1925.
January 9 J. V. Stalin has an interview with a group of Communists
assigned for work in the countryside.
January 10 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to the leaders of the
All-Union Association of Proletarian Writers concerning the convocation
of a conference of proletarian writers.
January 17-20 J. V. Stalin directs the proceedings of the plenum
of the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.).
January 17 At a joint session of the plenums of the Central Committee
and the Central Control Commission of the R.C.P.(B-), J. V. Stalin reports
on the resolutions passed by local organizations on Trotsky's action.
January 19 J. V. Stalin speaks at the plenum of the Central Committee
of the R.C.P.(B.) on M. V. Frunze's report on "Budget Assignments
for the People's Commissariat of Military and Naval Affairs of the U.S.S.R."
January 21 I. V. Stalin's letter to Rabochaya Gazeta on the first
anniversary of the death of V. I. Lenin is published in Rabochaya Gazeta,
No. 17.
January 25 J. V. Stalin writes an answer to Comrade D-ov's letter
concerning the question of the victory of socialism in one country.
January 26 J. V. Stalin speaks at a meeting of the Organizing
Bureau of the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.) on "Dymovka."
January 27 1. V. Stalin delivers a speech at the Thirteenth Gubernia
Conference of the Moscow organization of the R.C.P.(B.) "Concerning
the Question of the Proletariat and the Peasantry."
January 28 J. V. Stalin takes part in the meetings of the Executive
Committee of the Communist International (E.G.C.I.) and of its Presidium.
January 30 In greetings telegraphed to Hie first congresses of
the Communist Parties of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, J. V. Stalin defines
the tasks of the Communist Parties in those republics after the national
delimitation that had been carried out in Central Asia. The telegrams
were published in the newspapers Pravda Vostoka (Truth of the East),
No. 29, February 6, 1925, and Turkmenskaya Iskra (Turkmenian
Spark), No. 34, February 14, 1925.
January 21 The Twenty-First. Gubernia Party Conference of the
Leningrad organization of the R.C.P.(B.) elects J. V. Stalin a member
of the Leningrad Gubernia Party Committee.
February 2 J. V. Stalin has an interview with a delegation from
the All-Union Association of Proletarian Writers on questions concerning
proletarian literature.
February 3 J. V. Stalin's interview with Herzog on "The
Prospects of the Communist Party of Germany and Bolshevisation"
is published in Pravda, No. 27.
February 6 J. V. Stalin has an interview with leading functionaries
of the Central Committee and Moscow Committee of the Russian Leninist
Young Communist League on questions con-cerning the work of the League.
February 7 J. V. Stalin has an interview with a delegation from
the plenum of the "Proletkult" organization on questions concerning
the further work of this organization.
February 9 J. V. Stalin has an interview with leading functionaries
of the Central Committee of (the R.L.Y.C.L. on questions concerning
the work of the League.
February 15 J. V. Stalin sends greetings to the Seventh Tsaritsyn
Gubernia Congress of Soviets.
February 18 J. V. Stalin takes part in a meeting of tin-Presidium
of the E.C.C.I.
February 20 J. V. Stalin has an interview with representatives
of Party and Soviet bodies in the Tula Gubernia on questions concerning
the work of the cooperatives and on housing.
February 26 J. V. Stalin takes part in a meeting of the Presidium
of the E.C.C.I.
February 28 S. V. Stalin writes a letter to Comrade Me-rt concerning
the situation in the Communist Party of Germany.
March 6 J. V. Stalin sends greetings to the working people of
Tajikistan on the occasion of the formation of the Tajik Autonomous
Soviet Socialist Republic. The greetings were published in Pravda Vostoka,
No. 58, March 12, 1925.
March 8 J. V. Stalin's article "International Women's Day"
is published in Pravda, No. 56.
March 9 J. V. Stalin signs the notice "To all organizations
of the R.C.P.(B.)" announcing the convocation of an All-Union Party
Conference and agenda of this conference.
March 10 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to the cadets and lo the
commanding, political and teaching staff of the Stalin Infantry School
in Nizhni Novgorod in connection with his election as an honorary cadet
of the school. The letter was published in Nizhegorodskaya Kommuna (Nizhni-Novgorod
Commune), No. 45, February 23, 1930.
J. V. Stalin sends greetings to the Tsaritsyn Gubernia congress of agricultural
co-operative delegates, wishing them success in drawing the toiling
peasantry into the work of building socialism.
March 13 J. V. Stalin writes the message of the Central Committee
of the R.C.P.(B.) sent to the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang
in connection with the death of Sun Yat-sen. The message was published
in Pravda, No. 60, March 14, 1925.
March 14 and 16 J. V. Stalin has an interview with a delegation
from the First All-Union Congress of Village Correspondents.
March 16 J. V. Stalin sends greetings to the First, Party Conference
of the Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Region in which he defines the tasks
confront-ing the Communists of Kara-Kirghizia. The greetings were published
in Pravda Vostoka, No. 67, March 26, 1925.
March 17 J. V. Stalin has an interview with the delegation from
the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia which had arrived for the Fifth
Enlarged Plenum of the E.G.C.I.
March 21 - April 6 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the
Fifth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
March 21 J. V. Stalin is elected a member of the political and
Czechoslovak commissions set up by the Fifth Enlarged Plenum of the
E.C.C.I.
March 22 J. V. Stalin's article "The International Situation
and the Tasks of the Communist Parties" is published in Pravda,
No. 66.
March 25 J. V. Stalin has an interview with the delegations from
the workers at. the Vladimir Ilyich and Dynamo factories who had come
id invite him to attend their meetings for the election of deputies
to the Moscow and District Soviets of Workers', Peasants' and Red Army
Deputies.
J. V. Stalin has an interview with a delegation from the crew of the
torpedo-boat "Stalin" of the Red Baltic Fleet.
J. V. Stalin has an interview with leading members of the staff of the
Lenin Institute on questions concerning the work of the Institute.
March 27 J. V. Stalin has an interview with the delegation from
the Communist Party of France which had arrived for the Fifth Enlarged
Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
J. V. Stalin speaks at a meeting of the Czechoslovak Commission of the
Enlarged Plenum (if the E.C.C.I. on "The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia."
March 28 At a meeting of the workers of Section No. 1 of the
Locomotive Service of the Northern Railway, J.V.Stalin is elected a
deputy to the Moscow Soviet of Workers', Peasants' and Red Army Men's
Deputies.
March 30 J. V. Stalin speaks at a meeting of the Czecho-slovak
submission of the Fifth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I. on the situation
in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
J. V. Stalin speaks at a meeting of the Yugoslav Commission of the Enlarged
Plenum of the E.C.C.I. on "Concerning the National Question in
Yugoslavia."
J. V. Stalin has an interview with a delegation from the Kirghiz Republic
on the situation in Kirghizia.
J. V. Stalin has an interview with representatives of the editorial
board of the newspaper Bednota on questions concerning the work of the
peasant department of that newspaper.
April 1 J. V. Stalin has an interview with a delegation of workers
from Section No. 1 of the Locomotive Service of the Northern Railway
who had come to hand him his credentials as a deputy to the Moscow Soviet.
April 3 In a telegram to S. M. Kirov, Secretary of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, J. V. Stalin greets
the Communist Party of Azerbaijan on the occasion of its fifth anniversary.
The telegram was published in Bakinsky Rabochy (Baku Worker), No. 75,
April 5, 1925.
April 6 J. V. Stalin speaks at a meeting of the Organizing Bureau
of the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.) on "The Active of the
Young Communist League in the Countryside."
April 7 J. V. Stalin takes part in a meeting of the E.C.C.I.
April 13 J. V. Stalin has an interview with a delegation from the First
All-Union Conference of Proletarian Students.
April 15 J. V. Stalin writes an address "To the First All-Union
Conference of Proletarian Students." The address was published
in Pravda, No. 87, April 16, 1925.
April 23-30 J. V. Stalin directs the proceedings of the plenum
of the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.).
April 27-29 J. V. Stalin directs the proceedings of the Fourteenth
Conference of the R.C.P.(B.).
May 1 J. V. Stalin is present at the May Day military parade
and a demonstration of the working people in the Red Square, Moscow.
May 2 J. V. Stalin sends greetings to the editorial board of
Pravda Vostoka (Tashkent) on the occasion of Press Day. The greetings
were published in a special issue of Pravda Vostoka, May 6, 1925.
May 5 J. V. Stalin has an interview with a delegation of workers
from the October Railway.
May 6 J. V. Stalin writes a message of greetings to tin' newspaper
Pod Znamenem Ilyicha (Under Ilyich's Banner), organ of the Communist
University of the Toilers of the East, in which he defines the tasks
confronting that newspaper.
May 7-11, 16 J. V. Stalin takes part in the proceedings of the
Twelfth All-Russian Congress of Soviets.
May 9 J. V. Stalin delivers a report on "The Result? of
the Work of the Fourteenth Conference of the R.C.P.(B.)" at a meeting
of the active of the Moscow organization of the R.C.P.(B.).
May 11 The Twelfth All-Russian Congress of Soviets elects J.
V. Stalin a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
The first session of the All-Russian C.E.C., Twelfth Convocation, elects
J. V. Stalin a member of the Presidium of the All-Russian C.E.C.
May 13-20 J. V. Stalin takes part in the proceedings of the Third
Congress of Soviets of the U.S.S.R.
May 18 J. V. Stalin speaks at a meeting of students at the Communist
University of the Toilers of the East on "The Political Tasks of
the University of the Peoples of the East."
May 20 The Third Congress of Soviets of the U.S.S.R. elects J.
V. Stalin a member of the Union So-viet of the Central Executive Committee
of the U.S.S.R.
May 21 The first session of the C.E.C. of the U.S.S.R. elects
J. V. Stalin a member of the Presidium of the C.E.C. of the U.S.S.R.
May 22 J. V. Stalin has an interview with delegates from the
Turkmenian and Uzbek republics at the Third Congress of Soviets of the
U.S.S.R.
May 23 J. V. Stalin has an interview with leading workers of
Party and Soviet bodies in the South-Ossetian and North-Ossetian Autonomous
Regions.
May 25 J. V. Stalin has an interview with delegates at the Third
Congress of Soviets of the U.S.S.R, from the Turkmenian S.S.R. and the
Tajik and Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics on the situation
in these republics.
May 29 J.V. Stalin takes part in a meeting of tin-Presidium of
the C.E.C. of the U.S.S.R.
June 1 J. V. Stalin has an interview with leading officials of
the Uzbek S.S.R. and of the Daghestan and Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist
Republics.
June 2 J. V. Stalin, V. M. Molotov and A. A. Andreyev send a
letter to the members of the editorial board of Komsomolskaya Pravda.
June 3 J.V. Stalin has an interview with students of the courses
organized by the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.) for uyezd Party
workers.
June 5 J.V. Stalin takes part in a meeting of the Presidium of
the C.E.C. of the U.S.S.R.
June 9 J. V. Stalin speaks at the Sverdlov Communist University,
answering questions put to him by students of the University.
June 13 J. V. Stalin's greetings "To the Sverdlov University
(On the Occasion of the Second Graduation of Students of Basic and Trade-Union
Courses)" are published in Pravda, No. 132.
June 27 J. V. Stalin has an interview with the chairmen of the
Tambov, Orel, Voronezh and Kursk Gubernia Executive Committees of Soviets
on the measures to be taken to rehabilitate the national economy in
the black-earth belt.
June 30 J. V. Stalin's article "The National Question Once
Again (Concerning the Article by Semicb)" is published in the magazine
Bolshevik, No. 11-12.
July 3 At a meeting of the Presidium of the E.C.C.I., J. V. Stalin
is elected to the commission on the Polish question.
July 4 J.V. Stalin speaks at a meeting of the Polish Commission
of the E.C.C.I, on the situation in the Communist Party of Poland.
J. V. Stalin's interview with Mr. Fuse, Japanese correspondent of the
newspaper Nichi-Nichi, on "The Revolutionary Movement in the East"
is published in Pravda, No. 150.
July 20 The Presidium of the E.C.C.I. elects J. V. Stalin to
the commission on the German question.
August 18 J.V. Stalin sends a letter to the Cossacks of Goryachevodskaya
Stanitsa acknowledging the receipt of the certificate of his election
as an Honorary Cossack of that stanitsa on the occa-sion of its centenary.
The letter was published in the newspaper Terek, No. 189, August 22,
1925.
September 12 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to V. M. Molotov concerning
the anti-Bolshevik character of Zinoviev's article "The Philosophy
of the Epoch."
September 15 J. V. Stalin writes an answer to a note by Comrade
Yermakovsky.
September 19 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the patients at the
Uch-Dere Sanatorium are published in the newspaper Sovietsky Yug (Soviet
South), No. 215.
September 24 The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.)
elects J. V. Stalin to the commission set up to examine the proposals
of the Central Asian Bureau of the C.C. of the R.C.P.(B.) for land and
irrigation reform in Central Asia.
September 28 J. V. Stalin discusses with representatives of the
Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic the national and state structure
of that republic.
October 3-10 J. V. Stalin directs the proceedings of the plenum
of the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.).
October 10 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to Klara Zetkin concerning
the state of affairs in the Communist Party of Germany.
October 12 J. V. Stalin has an interview with members of the
staffs of the Agitation and Propaganda Departments of the Tiflis and
Nizhni-Novgorod Party Committees, participants in the conference of
heads of Agitation and Propaganda Departments convened by the Central
Committee of the R.C.P.(B.).
October 14 J. V. Stalin has an interview with participants in
the conference of Agitation and Propaganda Departments convened by the
Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.).
October 15 The announcement, signed by J. V. Stalin, of the convocation
of the Fourteenth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) is published in Pravda,
No. 236.
October 19 J. V. Stalin has an interview with representatives
of the South-Ossefcian and North-Ossetian Autonomous Regions on the
question of uniting the two regions.
J. V. Stalin speaks at a meeting of the Organizing Bureau of the Central
Committee of the R.C.P.(B.) on the work of the Tatar Party organization.
J. V. Stalin has an interview with the Chairman of the Kursk Gubernia
Executive Committee of Soviets and the Secretary of the Kursk Gubernia
Party Committee on questions concerning work in the countryside.
J. V. Stalin has an interview with the manager of the Tula Small Arms
Factory on questions concerning the work of the factory.
October 23 J. V. Stalin sends greetings to the workers at the
Baltic Shipbuilding Yard on the occasion of the launching of the first
Soviet-built timbercarrier, the "Comrade Stalin." The greetings
were published in Izvestia, No. 246, October 27, 1925.
October 29 Komsomolskaya Pravda, No. 133, publishes J. V. Stalin's
answers to questions put to him by the editorial board concerning the
tasks of the Young Communist League.
J. V. Stalin visits M. V. Frunze, then lying ill in the Botkin (Soldatenkov)
Hospital.
October 31 J. V. Stalin visits the Botkin Hospital where the
body of M. V. Frunze was lying in state.
November 2 J. V. Stalin attends the Frunze memorial meeting in
the Bolshoi Theatre,
November 3 J. V. Stalin delivers a speech at the funeral of M.
V. Frunze in the Red Square.
November 7 J. V. Stalin's article "October, Lenin, and the
Prospects of Our Development" is published in Pravda, No. 255.
November 9 J. V. Stalin has an interview with leading functionaries
of the Central Committee and Moscow Committee of the R.L.Y.C.L. on questions
concerning the work of the League.
Before November 15 A Party meeting of the workers at the Stalin
Workshops of the October Railway elects J. V. Stalin a delegate to the
Fifth Parly Conference of the Sokolniki District of Moscow.
November 16 J. V. Stalin has an interview with the leaders of
the Azerbaijan sections of the Metalworkers' and Miners' Unions on the
conditions of the workers.
November 18 J. V. Stalin takes part in a meeting of the Presidium
of the C.E.C. of the U.S.S.R.
J. V. Stalin sends greetings to the Fifth Party Conference of the Sokolniki
District of Moscow. The greetings were published in the newspaper Gudok
(Siren), No. 265, November 20, 1925.
November 29 J. V. Stalin sends a telegram to Comrade Yaroslavsky
in Leningrad concerning the preparations for the Twenty-Second Gubernia
Conference of the Leningrad organization of the R.C.P.(B.).
December 1 The Twenty-Second Gubernia Conference of the Leningrad
organization of the R.C.P.(B.) elects J. V. Stalin an honorary member
of the presidium of the conference.
December 5 The Fourteenth Gubernia Conference of the Moscow organization
of the R.C.P.(B.) elects J. V. Stalin an honorary member of the presidium
of the conference.
J. V. Stalin's letter to the editorial board of Bednota is published
in No. 2,278 of that newspaper.
December 8 J. V. Stalin writes a letter to the presidium of the
Twenty-Second Gubernia Conference of the Leningrad organization of the
R.C.P.(B.). The letter was published in the magazine Krasnaya Letopis
(Red Annals), No. 1 (58), 1934.
December 9 The Twenty-Second Guberilia Conference of the Leningrad
organization of the R.C.P.(B.) elects J. V. Stalin a member of the Leningrad
Gubernia Party Committee.
December 13 The Fourteenth Gubernia Conference of the Moscow
organization of the R.C.P.(B.) elects J. V. Stalin a delegate to the
Fourteenth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.),
December 15 J. V. Stalin signs the appeal by members of the Central
Committee of the R.C.P.(B.) to the "new opposition" concerning
the maintenance of Party unity.
J. V. Stalin directs the proceedings of the plenum of the Central Committee
of the R.C.P.(B.) and delivers a speech on the subject of changing the
name of the R.C.P.(B.) to Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)
- C.P.S.U.(B.).
December 18-31 J. V. Stalin directs the proceedings of the Fourteenth
Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.).
December 18 J. V. Stalin delivers the political report of the
Central Committee to the Fourteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.).
December 23 J. V. Stalin replies to the discussion al the Fourteenth
Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.) on the political report of the Central
Committee.
J. V. Stalin makes a statement concerning the draft resolution on the
Central Committee's report to the Fourteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.).
The statement was published in Pravda, No. 298, December 31, 1925.
December 28 J. V. Stalin directs the proceedings of tin-emergency
plenum of the Central Committee of the Party and delivers a speech on
the newspaper Leningradskaya Pravda owing to the "new opposition"
utilizing that newspaper for their factional anti-Party aims.
December 31 The Fourteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.) elects
J. V. Stalin a member of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.).