January 2 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the staff of the Molotov Automobile Works (Nizhni-Novgorod) in connection with the inauguration of the works are published in Pravda, No. 2.
January 4 J. V. Stalin writes greetings to the workers and the executive staff of the Saratov Harvester Combine Works on the occasion of the completion of the construction and the inauguration of the works. The greetings are published in Pravda, No. 5, January 5, 1932.
January 15 J. V. Stalin writes a reply to Olekhnovich with reference to the letter "Some Questions Concern ing the History of Bolshevism" sent to the editorial board of the magazine Proletarskaya Revolutsia. The reply was published in the magazine Bolshevik, No. 16, August 30, 1932.
Before January 21 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the commission of the C.C., CPSU(B) for preparing the draft resolution "Directives for Drawing up the Second Five -Year Plan for the National Economy of the USSR (1933-1937)." The resolution was adopted at the Seventeenth Conference of the CPSU(B) and endorsed by the plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B) on February 4, 1932.
January 21 J. V. Stalin attends the memorial meeting at the Bolshoi Theatre to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the death of V. I. Lenin.
January 25 J. V. Stalin writes an answer to Aristov with reference to the letter "Some Questions Concerning the History of Bolshevism" sent to the editorial board of the magazine Proletarskaya Revolutsia. The reply was published in the magazine Bolshevik, No. 16, August 30, 1932.
January 29 J. V. Stalin, at a joint plenum of the Leningrad Regional and City Committees of the CPSU(B), is elected a delegate to the Seventeenth All-Union Party Conference.
January 30 J. V. Stalin, at a joint plenum of the Moscow Regional and City Committees of the CPSU(B), is elected a delegate to the Seventeenth All-Union Party Conference.
January 30-February 4 J. V. Stalin directs the work of the Seventeenth Conference of the CPSU(B).
February 4 J. V. Stalin directs the work of the plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B).
February 10 - April 1 J. V. Stalin directs the work of the commission of the C.C., CPSU(B) on questions of the production of goods for mass consumption.
March 29 J. V. Stalin writes a message of greetings to the workers and the administrative and technical personnel of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works Project on the occasion of the inauguration and mastering the technique of the giant blast furnace, the first of its kind in the USSR and Europe. The greetings are published in Pravda, No. 89, March 30, 1932.
April 7 J. V. Stalin's article, "The Importance and Tasks of the Complaints Bureaus," is published in Pravda, No. 97.
April 20 J. V. Stalin attends the opening in the Bolshoi Theatre of the Ninth All-Union Congress of Trade Unions. The congress elects J. V. Stalin to its honorary presidium.
April 23 J. V. Stalin is made a member of the commission of the C.C., CPSU(B) on the irrigation of the Trans-Volga area.
April 24 The decision, adopted on J. V. Stalin's initiative, of the C.C., CPSU(B) on the reconstruction of literary and art organizations and the creation of a single Union of Soviet Writers is published in Pravda, No. 114.
May 1 J. V. Stalin is present at the May Day military parade of the Moscow Garrison and the demonstration of the working people of the capital in the Red Square.
May 2 J. V. Stalin together with other leaders of the Party and the Government receives in the Kremlin participants in the May Day parade.
May 3 J. V. Stalin replies to questions of Ralph V. Barnes.
May 8 J. V. Stalin, by decision of the Political Bureau of the C.C., CPSU(B), is made a member of the commission on checking fulfillment of the decisions of the central bodies relating to the production of goods for mass consumption.
May 23 The decision of the Council of People's Commissars, USSR and the C.C., CPSU(B) of May 22, 1932, on "The Fight against Drought and the Irrigation of the Trans-Volga Area," signed by J. V. Stalin and V. M. Molotov. is published in Pravda, No. 141.
May 24 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the men and women shock brigaders, the technical personnel and the executive staff of the Kuznetsk Iron and Steel Works for having achieved high records of pig iron output and Bolshevik tempos in mastering the most up-to-date technique are published in Pravda, No. 142.
J. V. Stalin is present at the sports parade in the Red Square, Moscow.
July 8 J. V. Stalin writes a message of greetings to the Seventh All-Union Conference of the All-Union Leninist Y.C.L. The greetings are published in Pravda, No. 188, July 9, 1932.
August 8 The law on "Protection of the Property of Stale Enterprises, Collective Farms and Cooperatives and the Consolidation of Public (Socialist) Property," written by J. V. Stalin and adopted on August 7 by the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, is published in Pravda, No. 218.
September 4 J. V. Stalin is present at the demonstration of working youth in the Red Square, Moscow, held in honour of the eighteenth International Youth Day.
September 25 J. V. Stalin's greetings to A. M. Gorky on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of Gorky's literary and revolutionary activity are published in Pravda, No. 266.
J. V. Stalin attends the ceremonial meeting in the Bolshoi Theatre devoted to the fortieth anniversary of A. M. Gorky's literary and revolutionary activity.
September 28-October 2 J. V. Stalin directs the work of a plenum of the C.C., CPSU(B).
October 7 J. V. Stalin, V. M. Molotov and K. Y. Voroshilov have a talk in A. M. Gorky's apartment with a group of scientists organizing a USSR Institute of Experimental Medicine.
October 10 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the workers and managers of the Dnieper Hydro-Electric Power Station on the occasion of the successful completion of the construction and preschedule inauguration of the station are published in Pravda, No. 281.
October 14 The greetings of J. V. Stalin, V. M. Molotov and K. Y. Voroshilov to the participants in the Arctic expedition on the icebreaker SibiryakoV. which crossed the Arctic Ocean in a single journey, are published in Pravda, No. 285.
October 26 J. V. Stalin talks with a group of writers at A. M. Gorky's apartment. It was during this talk that J. V. Stalin called writers "engineers of human souls."
November 6 J. V. Stalin attends the celebration meeting of the Moscow Soviet held in the Bolshoi Theatre on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
November 7 J. V. Stalin is present at the military parade of the Moscow Garrison and the demonstration of the working people of the capital in the Red Square in honour of the fifteenth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
J. V. Stalin's greetings to Leningrad on the fifteenth anniversary of the establishment, of Soviet power are published in Pravda, No. 309.
Wight of November 8 Death of N. S. Alliluyeva-Stalina, J. V. Stalin's wife and close comrade.
November 11 J. V. Stalin accompanies the bier of N. S. Alliluyeva-Stalina to the Novodevichye cemetery.
November 18 In a letter published in Pravda, No. 318, J. V. Stalin thanks the organizations, institutions, friends and comrades who expressed their condolences on the occasion of the death of N. S. Alliluyeva-Stalina.
November 23 J. V. Stalin writes his article "Mr. Campbell Stretches the Truth." The article was published in the magazine Bolshevik, No. 22, November 30, 1932.
December 20 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the officials and troops of the OGPU on the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary are published in Pravda, No. 350.
