January 4 J. V. Stalin attends the opening of the Third Session
of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, Fifth Convocation.
January 5-6 J. V. Stalin participates in the work of a conference
held in the C.C., CPSU(B) with railway transport personnel.
January 8 J. V. Stalin is elected an honorary member of the Leningrad
Soviet by the workers of the city's large enterprises.
January 12 J. V. Stalin writes an answer to the inquiry of the
Jewish News Agency in the U.S.A. about the attitude in the USSR to anti-Semitism.
January 16 J. V. Stalin attends the opening of the Ninth Congress
of the All-Union Leninist Y.C.L. The congress elects him to its honorary
presidium.
January 21 J. ,V. Stalin attends the memorial meeting at the
Bolshoi Theatre to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the death
of V. I. Lenin.
January 23 J. V. Stalin is elected an honorary member of the
Moscow Soviet at meetings of the workers of the capital's large enterprises.
February 4 J. V. Stalin delivers his speech on "The Tasks
of Business Executives" at the First All-Union Conference of Leading
Personnel of Socialist Industry.
February 24 J. V. Stalin, at the Second Moscow Regional Congress
of Soviets, is elected a delegate to the Fifteenth All-Russian and the
Sixth All-Union Congresses of Soviets.
February 26-March 5 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the
Fifteenth All-Russian Congress of Soviets.
February 27 J. V. Stalin writes his answer to Comrade Etchin's
letter.
March 5 J. V. Stalin, at the session of the Fifteenth All-Russian
Congress of Soviets, is elected a member of the All-Russian Central
Executive Committee.
March 8-17 J. V. Stalin participates in the work of the Sixth
All-Union Congress of Soviets.
March 17 J. V. Stalin, at the session of the Sixth All-Union
Congress of Soviets, is elected a member of the Union Soviet of the
Central Executive Committee of the USSR.
March 31 J. V. Stalin writes greetings to the workers and the
administrative and technical personnel of the State Association of the
Azerbaijanian Oil Industry and that of the Grozny Oil and Gas Industry
in connection with their fulfillment of the five-year oil production
plan in two and a half years. The greetings are published in Pravda,
No. 90, April 1, 1931.
April 3 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the workers and the administrative
and technical personnel of Elektrozavod (Moscow) in connection with
the factory's fulfillment of its five-year plan in two and a half years
are published in Pravda, No. 92.
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 7, 14, 23 and 29 and June 4 J. V. Stalin participates in
the work of the commission for the drawing up of the draft decision
of the Political Bureau of the C.C., CPSU(B) on improving and expanding
Moscow's municipal economy.
May 11 and 13 J. V. Stalin takes part in a conference of person-nel
of the coal industry, held in the C.C., CPSU(B).
May 19 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the workers and the executive
staff of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works Project on the occasion
of the completion of the construction and the commencement of the exploitation
of the powerful Magnitogorsk mine are published in Pravda, No. 136.
May 28 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the workers, specialists and
executive staff of the machine and tractor stations on the occasion
of the preschedule fulfillment of their sowing plan are published in
Pravda, No. 145.
May 30 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the workers, specialists and
executives of the state grain farms on the occasion of the fulfillment
of the sowing plan are published in Pravda, No. 147.
June 11-15 J. V. Stalin directs the work of the plenum of the
C.C., CPSU(B).
June 22-23 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of a conference
of business executives held under the auspices of the C.C., CPSU(B).
June 23 J. V. Stalin delivers his speech, New Conditions- New
Tasks in Economic Construction at the conference of business executives
held under the auspices of the C.C., CPSU(B).
July 23 J. V. Stalin, at a meeting of the C.C., CPSU(B) attended
by cooperative officials, delivers a speech on questions of improving
the work of the consumers' cooperatives and of supplies tor the working
people in big industrial centers.
October 1 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the staff of the AMO Works
(Moscow) on the occasion of the completion of the building of the first
gigantic automobile works in the USSR and to the staff of the Kharkov
Tractor Works on the occasion of the preschedule completion of its construction
are published in Pravda, No. 271.
October 10 J. V. Stalin's greetings to the newspaper Tekhnika
on the occasion of its first appearance are published in Pravda, No.
280 and in Tekhnika, No. 1.
October 11 J. V. Stalin, V. M. Molotov and K. Y. Voroshilov pay
a visit to A. M. Gorky, who reads them one of his works, a fairytale
called "The Girl and Death."
October 25 J. V. Stalin, K. Y. Voroshilov. G. K. Orjonikidze
and L. M. Kaganovich meet in the Kremlin shock brigaders of the Stalin
Automobile Works (the former AMO), who arrived on the first lorries
and buses manufactured by the plant.
October 28-31 J. V. Stalin directs the work of the plenum of
the C.C., CPSU(B).
End of October J. V. Stalin's letter to the editorial board of the magazine
Proletarskaya Revolutsia on "Some Questions Concerning the History
of Bolshevism" is published in the magazine Bolshevik, Nos. 19-20
and in the magazine Proletarskaya Revolutsia, No. 6 (113).
November 3 J. V. Stalin and V. M. Molotov send a message of greetings
to the builders of the automobile works in Nizhni-Novgorod on the occasion
of the successful completion of the construction work. The greetings
are published in Pravda, No. 305, November 4, 1931.
November 6 J. V. Stalin attends the celebration meeting of the
Moscow Soviet held in the Bolshoi Theatre on the occasion of the fourteenth
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 fourteenth anniversary of
the Great October Socialist Revolution.
November 25 J. V. Stalin, by decision of the Political Bureau
of the C.C., CPSU(B), is appointed a member of the commission for preparing
the draft resolution of the Seventeenth Conference of the CPSU(B), "Directives
for Drawing up the Second Five-Year Plan for the National Economy of
the USSR (1933-1937)."
December 6 J. V. Stalin receives a group of Moscow writers and
talks with them on problems of literature.
December
13
J. V. Stalin has a talk with the German writer Emil Ludwig.
December 22 J. V. Stalin attends the opening of the Second Session
of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, Sixth Convocation.