J. V. Stalin
Source: Works, Vol. 8, January-November, 1926, pp. 409-421
Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1954
Transcription/Markup: Brian Reid
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January 1
J. V. Stalin directs the work of the plenum of the Central Committee, C.P.S.U.(B.), where he speaks on organisational questions.
J . V. Stalin is elected by the plenum to the Political Bureau, Organising Bureau and
Secretariat of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.), and appointed General Secretary of the Party.
The plenum decided to prolong J. V. Stalin’s credentials as a delegate of the C.P.S.U.(B.) to the Executive Committee of the Communist International (E.C.C.I.).
January 5
J. V. Stalin informs V. M. Molotov, N. M. Shvernik, S. M. Kirov and others in Leningrad
of the resolution passed on January 5, 1926, by the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.), exposing the factional
activity of the Leningrad Gubernia Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.).
January 8
J. V. Stalin directs a meeting of the C.P.S.U.(B.) delegation to the E.C.C.I.
January 16
J. V. Stalin has a talk with representatives of the American Communist Party delegation to
the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
January 19
J . V. Stalin has a talk with students of the Institute of Red Professors.
January 22
J. V. Stalin delivers speeches at a meeting of the Presidium of the E.C.C.I. on “The Fight against Right and ‘Ultra-Left’ Deviations.”
January 25
J . V. Stalin completes his work Concerning Questions of Leninism, which was published as a separate pamphlet on February 6, and printed in the magazine Bolshevik, No. 3, February 15, 1926.
February 5
J . V. Stalin has a talk with members of the Chinese Communist Party delegation to the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
February 6-8
J. V. Stalin is elected by special Party conferences of the Volodarsky, Moskovsko-Narvsky and other districts of Leningrad as their first delegate to the Twenty-Third Special Leningrad Gubernia Conference of the C.P.S.U.(B.).
February 9
J. V. Stalin replies to a letter from P. F. Boltnev, V. I . Efremov and V. I . Ivlev on “The Peasantry as an Ally of the Working Class.”
February 10
Leningradskaya Pravda, No. 33, publishes the sixth chapter—“The Question of the Victory of Socialism in One Country”—of J. V. Stalin’s work Concerning Questions of Leninism.
J. V. Stalin replies to a letter of T. M. Pokoyev, chairman of the Poor Peasants’ Committee, Bobrinets District, Ukr.S.S.R. on “The Possibility of Building Socialism in Our Country.”
February 12
J . V. Stalin i s elected by the Twenty-Third Special Leningrad Gubernia Conference of the C.P.S.U.(B.) as a member of the Leningrad Gubernia Party Committee.
February 17-March 15
J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
February 17
At the first sitting of the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I., J. V. Stalin is elected to
the Presidium of the E.C.C.I. plenum and to the Political, Eastern, and French Commissions
of the plenum.
February 19
J . V. Stalin writes a letter to the members of the delegation of the C.P.S.U.(B.) in the E.C.C.I. in which he exposes Zinoviev who distorted the decisions of the Fourteenth Congress
of the C.P.S.U.(B.) when making the opening speech at the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
J. V. Stalin has a talk with representatives of the German and French Communist Party delegations to the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
February 20
The Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I. elects J . V. Stalin chairman of its German Commission.
February 21
At a meeting of the Bureau of the C.P.S.U.(B.) delegation to the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of
the E.C.C.I., J. V. Stalin reports that the German delegation is dissatisfied with Zinoviev’s speech at the plenum.
February 23
The newspaper Kommunist, No. 43, organ of the Central Committee and Kharkov Okrug
Committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), prints a statement in memory of G. I. Kotovsky, written by J . V. Stalin.
J. V. Stalin attends a ceremonial meeting in the Bolshoi Theatre in honour of the Eighth Anniversary of the Red Army.
February 27
Publication of J . V. Stalin’s collection of writings entitled Questions of Leninism.
March 3
J. V. Stalin speaks at a meeting of the Bureau of the C.P.S.U.(B.) delegation to the Sixth
Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I. on the ideological struggle against the “ultra-Lefts” in the German Communist Party.
March 6
J. V. Stalin speaks in the French Commission of the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
on the situation in the French Communist Party.
At a meeting of the Bureau of the C.P.S.U.(B.) delegation to the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the
E.C.C.I., J. V. Stalin opposes a proposal by Zinoviev that adherents of the “New Opposition” should be drawn into the work of the E.C.C.I.
March 7
Pravda, No. 55, publishes greetings from J . V. Stalin to working women and women
toilers throughout the world in connection with the sixteenth celebration of International
Communist Women’s Day.
March 8
At a meeting of the German Commission of the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I., J . V. Stalin delivers a speech on the fight against the “ultra-Lefts” in the German Communist Party.
March 15
At a meeting of the Organising Bureau of
the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.), J . V. Stalin delivers
speeches on the plan of work of the Organising
Bureau for March-August 1926 and on the elections
to the Soviets.
March 16
J . V. Stalin has a talk with representatives
of the German and French Communist
Party delegations to the Sixth Enlarged Plenum
of the E.C.C.I.
March 17
The E.C.C.I. elects J. V. Stalin a member of
its Presidium.
J. V. Stalin has a talk with representatives of
the German Communist Party delegation to
the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
March 23
The newspapers Pravda and Komsomolskaya
Pravda, Nos. 66, print a message of greetings
by J. V. Stalin to the Seventh Congress of the
All-Union Leninist Young Communist League.
April 3
The Political Bureau of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.)
appoints J. V. Stalin a member of the Commission
of the Political Bureau for drafting the
theses on “The Economic Situation and Economic
Policy” to be submitted for discussion
at the April plenum of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.).
April 5
At a meeting of the Commission of the Political
Bureau of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.),
J. V. Stalin speaks in support of the theses on
“The Economic Situation and Economic Policy.”
April 6-9
J. V. Stalin directs the work of the plenum of
the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.).
April 9
At the morning sitting of the plenum of the
C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.), J . V. Stalin delivers a
report on “The Economic Situation and Economic
Policy.”
At the evening sitting, J. V. Stalin delivers a
report on “The Plan of Work of the Political
Bureau and the C.C. Plenum for 1926.”
April 12
J . V. Stalin delivers a report on the results
of the work of the April plenum of the C.C.,
C.P.S.U.(B.) a t a plenum of the Leningrad
Gubernia Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.).
April 13
J. V. Stalin delivers a report on “The Economic
Situation of the Soviet Union and the Policy
of the Party” at a meeting of the active of
the Leningrad organisation of the C.P.S.U.(B.).
April 20
J . V. Stalin has a talk with a delegation
from the Stalin Factory (Bolshevo, Moscow
Gubernia), which has come to invite him to
their May Day celebration.
April 21
J. V. Stalin replies to a letter of Klara Zetkin
on the organisation Workers’ International
Relief (WIR).
Publication of J . V. Stalin’s pamphlet The
Economic Situation of the Soviet Union.
April 25
Pravda, No. 95, publishes an appeal signed by
J. V. Stalin, Secretary of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.)
and V. V. Kuibyshev, Chairman of the C.C.C.,
C.P.S.U.(B.), addressed to all Party organisations
and Party control commissions and to
Party members engaged in economic, co-operative,
trade, banking and other institutions,
on the fight for a regime of economy.
April 26
J. V. Stalin writes a letter to L. M. Kaganovich
and the other members of the Political
Bureau of the C.C., Ukrainian Communist
Party (Bolsheviks).
April 30
J. V. Stalin writes a letter to the members of
the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.) in which he exposes
Zinoviev’s factional activity.
May 1
J. V. Stalin is present at the military parade
of the Moscow Garrison and demonstration of the
working people of Moscow in the Red Square.
May 5
J. V. Stalin has an interview with members of
the press.
May 7
At a meeting of the Bureau of the C.P.S.U.(B.)
delegation to the E.C.C.I., J. V. Stalin speaks
on D. Z. Manuilsky’s article “Menshevism
Inside-Out and Social-Fascism,” which was
printed in the magazine Kommunistichesky Internatsional
(Communist International), No. 4 (53),
April 1926.
May 8
J. V. Stalin writes a letter to the members of
the C.P.S.U.(B.) delegation to the E.C.C.I.
exposing Zinoviev’s factional activity in the
Comintern.
May 11
J. V. Stalin informs the representatives of the
A.U.C.C.T.U. in Paris and Berlin of the British
T.U.C. General Council’s refusal to accept
financial aid from the workers of the
U.S.S.R. for the British miners on strike.
May 15
J. V. Stalin writes a second letter to the members
of the C.P.S.U.(B.) delegation to the E.C.C.I.
exposing Zinoviev’s factional activity in the
Comintern.
May 16
J. V. Stalin and V. M. Molotov have an interview
with members of the press at the headquarters
of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.).
J . V. Stalin has a talk with leading officials of the Central Committee of the All-
Union Leninist Young Communist League and
of the Young Communist International (Y.C.I.).
June 1
J. V. Stalin arrives in Tiflis.
June 2
J. V. Stalin inspects the Zemo-Avchaly hydroelectric
power station and afterwards writes in
the visitors’ book in Georgian: “Long live
our work of construction and the workers,
technicians and engineers engaged in it!” This
message was published in the newspapers Zarya
Vostoka, No. 1191, June 3 and Pravda,
No. 133, June 12, 1926.
June 3
J. V. Stalin writes a letter to V. M. Molotov
exposing the splitting, capitulatory policy of
Trotsky and Zinoviev, and defining the basic
line of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.) in foreign policy.
J. V. Stalin attends a performance in the Tiflis
State Opera House. During the interval he had
a talk with M. Balanchivadze, the composer,
about hi s opera “Tamar Tsbieri” and about
Georgian opera music, and points to the influence
of Russian composers, notably Chaikovsky,
on Georgian composers.
June 8
At a meeting of the workers of the chief railway
workshops in Tiflis, J . V. Stalin delivers a
report on “The British Strike and the Events in
Poland,” and replies to the greetings of the workers
of the railway workshops. The report and
the reply were published in the newspapers
Zarya Vostoka, No. 1197, June 10, and Pravda,
No. 136, June 16, 1926.
June 13
Bakinsky Rabochy (Baku Worker), No. 135,
publishes J. V. Stalin’s reply to an invitation
from the workers of Baku to visit their city.
June
J. V. Stalin is elected a member of the Communist Academy.
July 4
J. V. Stalin leaves the Caucasus for Moscow.
July 8
On the occasion of the appearance of its 1,000th
issue, J. V. Stalin sends a message of congratulation
to the newspaper Rabochaya Pravda
(Workers’ Truth), organ of the Central Committee
and Tiflis Committee of the Georgian
Communist Party (Bolsheviks), the Georgian
Trade Union Council, and the Tiflis Soviet
of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies,
the message being printed in that issue of
the newspaper.
July 14-23
J. V. Stalin directs the work of the joint plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.).
July 14
At the joint plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C.,
C.P.S.U.(B.), J. V. Stalin speaks on the question
of wages.
July 15
J. V. Stalin delivers a speech at the joint plenum
of the C.C. and C.C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.) on
a communication made by the Political Bureau
on the decisions adopted by it in connection
with the events in Britain, Poland and China.
July 22
1 a.m.
J. V. Stalin stands in the guard of honour at
the bier of F. E. Dzerzhinsky in the House of
Trade Unions.
Pravda, No. 166, publishes a statement by J. V. Stalin in memory of F. E. Dzerzhinsky.
At the morning sitting of the joint plenum of
the C.C. and C.C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.), J. V. Stalin
delivers a speech on the report of the Presidium
of the C.C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.) on the case of
Lashevich and others and on Party unity.
5.30 p.m.
J. V. Stalin takes part as pall bearer in carrying
the coffin with the body of F. E. Dzerzhinsky
out of the House of Trade Unions.
July 24
J . V. Stalin has a talk with officials of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission—the Joint State Political Administration, in connection with the death of F. E. Dzerzhinsky.
July 27
J . V. Stalin has a talk with representatives of the Polish Communist Party.
July 28
J . V. Stalin has a talk with a representative of the British Labour Party visiting the U.S.S.R.
J . V. Stalin has a talk with a representative of the Finnish Communist Party.
August 6
J. V. Stalin replies to a letter from a representative of the Communist Party of India.
August 7
At a meeting of the Presidium of the E.C.C.I., J. V. Stalin delivers a speech on “The Anglo-Russian Committee.”
August 13
J. V. Stalin writes a letter to the members of
the C.C. and C.C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.) in which he
exposes the anti-Party conduct of Trotsky and Zinoviev at the July joint plenum of the C.C.
and C.C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.).
September 21
J . V. Stalin sends a cable to the editorial board of the Daily Worker, central organ of the Workers Party of America.
October 8
J. V. Stalin writes a letter to Slepkov in connection with the latter’s article printed in Pravda of October 8, 1926.
October 11
J. V. Stalin delivers a speech at a meeting of
the Political Bureau of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.)
on “Measures for Mitigating the Inner-Party
Struggle.”
October 19
An enlarged plenum of the Leningrad Gubernia
Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.) elects
J . V. Stalin a delegate to the Fifteenth All-Union Conference of the C.P.S.U.(B.).
Between October 21 and 25
At the request of the Political Bureau of the
C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.), J . V. Stalin writes the
theses on “The Opposition Bloc in the
C.P.S.U.(B.).”
October 22
The Presidium of the E.C.C.I. appoints
J. V. Stalin to report on the Russian question
at the Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
October 23
A joint plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C.,
C.P.S.U.(B.) appoints J . V. Stalin to make
a report a t the Fifteenth All-Union Conference
of the C.P.S.U.(B.) on “The Opposition
and the inner-Party Situation.”
October 25
The Political Bureau of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.)
approves J. V. Stalin’s theses on “The Opposition
Bloc in the C.P.S.U.(B.)” for submission to the October joint plenum of the C.C. and
C.C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.).
October 26
The newspapers Pravda and Izvestia, Nos. 247,
publish J. V. Stalin’s theses on “The Opposition
Bloc in the C.P.S.U.(B.).”
At the joint plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C.
C.P.S.U.(B.), J. V. Stalin delivers a speech in
support of the theses on “The Opposition Bloc
in the C.P.S.U.(B.).” The plenum endorses
the theses for submission to the Fifteenth
All-Union Conference of the C.P.S.U.(B.).
October 26 - November 3
J. V. Stalin directs the work of the Fifteenth
All-Union Conference of the C.P.S.U.(B.).
November 1
At the Fifteenth All-Union Conference of the
C.P.S.U. (B.), J . V. Stalin delivers a report
on “The Opposition and the Inner-Party Situation.”
The report was published in Pravda
and Izvestia, Nos. 206, 257, November 5 and 6,
1926.
November 3
At the Fifteenth All-Union Conference of the
C.P.S.U.(B.), J. V. Stalin replies to the discussion
on his report on “The Opposition and
the Inner-Party Situation.” The reply to the
discussion was published in Pravda and Izvestia,
Nos. 262, November 12, 1926.
November 6
J. V. Stalin writes a reply to the editorial board
of Leningradskaya Pravda declining to give
his consent to the publication of his conversation
with Professor Jerome Davis of Yale
University, a report of which was published
in garbled form in the newspaper The New
York American.
November 7
J . V. Stalin attends the military parade of
the Moscow Garrison and demonstration of the
working people of Moscow in the Red Square.
November 15
J. V. Stalin’s report and reply to the discussion
at the Fifteenth All-Union Conference of the
C.P.S.U.(B.) are published in pamphlet form
under the title The Social-Democratic Deviation
in Our Party.
November 20
At a meeting of the Presidium of the Executive
Committee of the Comintern, J. V. Stalin communicates
the plan of his report on “The Internal
Situation in the C.P.S.U.(B.)” for the Seventh
Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
November 22 - December 16
J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
November 22
At its first sitting, the Seventh Enlarged
Plenum of the E.C.C.I. elects J . V. Stalin a
member of its Presidium and of its Political
Commission.
November 29-30
J. V. Stalin directs the work of a meeting of
the Bureau of the C.P.S.U.(B.) delegation to
the Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
November 30
J. V. Stalin delivers a speech in the Chinese
Commission of the Seventh Enlarged Plenum
of the E.C.C.I. on “The Prospects of the Revolution
in China.”