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January 1 The C.C. RCP(÷) and the Council of Defense 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 Defense, 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., RCP(B) and the Council of Defense.
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 Defense, 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 fiche 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 Ñ member of the delegation of the
RCP(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 fche RCP(B).
March 19 The Eighth Congress of the RCP(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 RCP(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., RCP(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., RCP(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 reorganization of
State Control.
April 9 J. V. Stalin makes a report at a plenary meeting of the
A.R.C.E.C. on the reorganization 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., RCP(B).
April 21 By decision of the Council of Defense, 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., RCP(B).
May 5 At a meeting of the Council of Defense, 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.,
RCP(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.
Mav 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 Gatchina sector of the front.
May 23 J. V. Stalin leaves Staraya Russa for the Gatchina 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 lour 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., RCP(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 Krasuaya Gorka.
June 15 J. V. Stalin leaves Oranienbaum for the battle area to
direct the operations against Fort Krasnaya Gorka.
June 16 J. V. Stalin informs V. I. Lenin of the capture of Forts
Krasnaya Gorka and Seraya Loshad 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 ple-nary meeting
of the C.C., RCP(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 Pelrograd 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 Defense and the inclu-sion 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 defense 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., RCP(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 Revolu-tionary
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., RCP(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 renaming 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 defense 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 Veliko-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.