J. V. Stalin
Source : Works, Vol. 7,
1925
Publisher : Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow,
1954
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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 organisations 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
J. 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 Organising Bureau of the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.) on "Dymovka."
January 27
J. V. Stalin delivers a speech at the Thirteenth Gubernia Conference of the Moscow organisation 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.C.C.I.) and of its Presidium.
January 30
In greetings telegraphed to the 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 31
The Twenty-First Gubernia Party Conference of the Leningrad organisation 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 concerning the work of the League.
February 7
J. V. Stalin has an interview with a delegation from the plenum of the "Proletkult" organisation on questions concerning the further work of this organisation.
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 the 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 co-operatives and on housing.
February 26
J. V. Stalin takes part in a meeting of the Presidium of the E.C.C.I.
February 28
J. 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 organisations 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 to 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 15
J. V. Stalin sends greetings to the First Party Conference of the Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Region in which he defines the tasks confronting 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.C.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 to 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 of 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 Czechoslovak subcommission 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 Organising 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 the 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 Results of the Work of the Fourteenth Conference ofthe R.C.P.(B.)" at a meeting of the active of the Moscow organisation 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 Soviet 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 the 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 organised 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 Se-mich)" 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 29
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 occasion 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-Ossetian and North-Ossetian Autonomous Regions on the question of uniting the two regions.
J. V. Stalin speaks at a meeting of the Organising Bureau of the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.) on the work of the Tatar Party organisation.
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 timber-carrier, 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 Party 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.G. 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 Yaro-slavsky in Leningrad concerning the preparations for the Twenty-Second Gubernia Conference of the Leningrad organisation of the R.C.P.(B.).
December 1
The Twenty-Second Gubernia Conference of the Leningrad organisation 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 organisation 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 Bed-nota 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 organisation 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 Gubernia Conference of the Leningrad organisation 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 organisation 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 20
J. V. Stalin replies to the discussion of 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 the emergency plenum of the Central Committee of the Party and delivers a speech on the newspaper Leningradskaya Pravda owing to the "new opposition" utilising 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.).