J. V. Stalin
Source: Works, Vol. 11, January, 1928 to March, 1929
Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1954
Transcription/Markup: Salil Sen for MIA, 2008
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January 7
J. V. Stalin has a talk with S. M. Kirov, Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee, C.P.S.U.(B.).
January 10
J. V. Stalin has a talk with the Chairman of the Tver Cotton Textile Trust on questions of the rationalisation of production.
January 11
J. V. Stalin has a talk with representatives of Party and Soviet organs of the Bryansk Guber-nia on the work of industry and on
collective agreements.
January 13
J. V. Stalin has a talk with representatives of the Union of Agricultural Co-operatives, Khle-botsentr, Khleboprodukt and the
People's Commissariat of Trade of the U.S.S.R.
January 15
J. V. Stalin leaves for Siberia in connection with the unsatisfactory state of the grain procurements in that territory.
January 18
J. V. Stalin attends a meeting in Novosibirsk of the Bureau of the Siberian Territorial Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.) together
with representatives of the grain procurement organisations.
January 22
J. V. Stalin conducts a conference in Barnaul of the active of the Barnaul organisation of the C.P.S.U.(B.) together with
representatives of the Biisk and Rubtsovsk okrug Party organisations on the fulfilment of the grain procurement plan.
January 23
At a meeting of the Bureau of the Rubtsovsk Okrug Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.), J. V. Stalin speaks on the progress of
grain procurements in the area.
January 27 and 28
J. V. Stalin takes part in a discussion on grain procurements at meetings of the Bureau of the Omsk Okrug Committee, C.P.S.U.(B.).
February 6
J. V. Stalin arrives back in Moscow from Siberia.
February 9-26
J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Ninth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Comintern.
February 10
J. V. Stalin has a talk with A. A. Zhdanov Secretary of the Nizhni-Novgorod Gubernia Committee, C.P.S.U.(B.).
February 13
J. V. Stalin writes a letter to all organisations of the C.P.S.U.(B.) on "First Results of the Procurement Campaign
and the Further Tasks of the Party.";
February 23
J. V. Stalin's greetings to the Red Army on its tenth anniversary are published in Krasnaya Zvezda, No. 46.
February 25
J. V. Stalin speaks on "Three Distinctive Features of the Red Army"; at a plenum of the Moscow Soviet held in
celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Red Army.
February 26
J. V. Stalin attends a parade of troops of the Moscow Garrison and a demonstration of the working people on the Red Square,
Moscow, arranged in honour of the tenth anniversary of the Red Army.
J. V. Stalin visits an exhibition of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia dedicated to the tenth anniversary of
the Red Army.
March 21
J. V. Stalin has a talk with members of the staffs of the newspaper Pravda and the magazine Bolshevik.
J. V. Stalin has a talk with the Secretary of the Omsk Okrug Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.) on grain procurements.
March 28
J. V. Stalin has a talk with representatives of the Stalingrad Gubernia Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.) and of the Gubernia
Executive Committee on reorganisation of administrative districts.
April 6-11
J. V. Stalin directs the work of a joint plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.).
April 10
J. V. Stalin speaks at the joint plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.) on the report of the commission set up by the
Political Bureau of the C.C. to recommend practical measures to eliminate the shortcomings revealed by the Shakhty affair.
The plenum elects J. V. Stalin to the commission appointed to prepare the final draft of the resolution on this question.
April 13
J. V. Stalin delivers a report to a meeting of the active of the Moscow organisation of the C.P.S.U.(B.) on The Work of the
April Joint Plenum of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission.
April 30
J. V. Stalin writes a message of greetings to the workers of Kostroma in connection with the unveiling of a monument to V. I. Lenin
in Kostroma on May 1, 1928.
May 1
J. V. Stalin attends the May Day parade of troops of the Moscow Garrison and the demonstration of the working people on the
Red Square, Moscow.
May 9
J. V. Stalin received a delegation of students of the Sverdlov Communist University.
J. V. Stalin has a talk with the head of the Chief Metal Board of the Supreme Council of National Economy of the U.S.S.R. on
reconstruction of the metal industry.
May 16
J. V Stalin delivers a speech at the Eighth Congress of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League
May 26
J. V. Stalin writes a message of greetings to Komsomolskaya Pravda in connection with the newspaper's third
anniversary. The greetings are published in Komsomolskaya Pravda, No. 122, May 27, 1928.
May 27
J. V. Stalin's greetings to the Sverdlov Communist University on its tenth anniversary are published in Pravda,
No. 122.
May 28
J. V. Stalin attends a meeting in the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Sverdlov Communist
University.
J. V. Stalin has a talk with students of the Institute of Red Professors, the Communist Academy and the Sverdlov Communist
University about the situation on the grain front.
May 30
J. V. Stalin receives the Secretaries of the Tula, Smolensk, Yaroslavl and Vladimir Gubernia Committees, C.P.S.U.(B.).
June 8
J. V. Stalin writes a letter to the Party affairs study circle at the Communist Academy on Slepkov's theses on
self-criticism.
June 12
J. V. Stalin writes an article "Lenin and the Question of the Alliance with the Middle Peasant. Reply to Comrade S.";
The article was published in Pravda, No. 152, July 3, 1928.
June 20
J. V. Stalin writes a letter "To the Members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. Reply to Frumkin.
(With Reference to Frum-kin's Letter of June 15, 1928.)";
June 26
J. V. Stalin's article "Against Vulgarising the Slogan of Self-Criticism"; is published in Pravda, No. 146.
July 4-12
J. V. Stalin directs the work of a plenum of the C.C.. C.P.S.U.(B.).
July 5
J. V. Stalin delivers a speech on "The Programme of the Comintern"; at the plenum of the
C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.).
July 9
J. V. Stalin delivers a speech on "Industrialisation and the Grain Problem"; at the plenum of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.).
July 11
J. V. Stalin delivers a speech "On the Bond between the Workers and Peasants and on State Farms"; at the plenum of
the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.).
July 13
J. V. Stalin delivers a report on Results of the July Plenum of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.) at a meeting of the active of
the Leningrad organisation of the C.P.S.U.(B.).
July 16
J. V. Stalin's message "To the Leningrad Oso-aviakhim"; in connection with Defence Week is published in
Krasnaya Gazeta (Leningrad), No. 163.
July 17
The Sixth Congress of the Comintern elects J. V. Stalin to the Presidium of the congress.
J. V. Stalin takes part in a meeting of the C.P.S.U.(B.) delegation to the Sixth Congress of the Comintern and is elected to
the delegation's bureau.
July 19
J. V. Stalin is elected to the commission set up by the Sixth Congress of the Comintern to draft the Comintern Programme.
July 30
J. V. Stalin is elected to the Political Commission set up by the Sixth Congress of the Comintern to draft theses on the
international situation and the tasks of the Communist International.
August 31
J. V. Stalin writes a letter to V. V. Kuibyshev.
September 1
The Sixth Congress of the Comintern elects J. V. Stalin a member of the Executive Committee of the Comintern.
September 3
A plenum of the E.C.C.I. elects J. V. Stalin a member of its Presidium.
October 9
Pravda, No. 235, publishes the obituary notice, "To the Memory of Comrade I. I. Skvortsov-Stepanov,";
written by J. V. Stalin.
October 12
J. V. Stalin attends the funeral of I. I. Skvortsov-Stepanov.
October 19
J. V. Stalin delivers a speech on "The Right Danger in the C.P.S.U.(B.)"; at a plenum of the Moscow Committee and
Moscow Control Commission of the C.P.S.U.(B.).
October 27
J. V. Stalin writes a "Reply to Comrade Sh.";
J. V. Stalin receives the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Railwaymen's Union.
October 28
J. V. Stalin's message of greetings "To the Leninist Young Communist League"; on the occasion of its tenth
anniversary is published in Pravda, No. 252.
October 30
J. V. Stalin receives representatives of the Central Students Bureau of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions.
November 6
J. V. Stalin attends a meeting of the Moscow Soviet in celebration of the eleventh anniversary of the Great October Socialist
Revolution.
November 7
J. V. Stalin attends the parade of troops of the Moscow Garrison and the demonstration of the working people on the Red Square,
Moscow.
November 16-2
J. V. Stalin directs the work of a plenum of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.).
November 17
J. V. Stalin's message of greetings "On the Tenth Anniversary of the First Congress of Working Women and Peasant
Women"; is published in Pravda, No. 267.
November 19
J. V. Stalin delivers a speech on Industrialisation of the Country and the Right Deviation in the C.P.S.U.(B.) at a
plenum of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.).
November 20
J. V. Stalin is elected to the commission set up by the plenum of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.) to draft the resolution on the control
figures of the national economy of the U.S.S.R. for 192829.
November 25
J. V. Stalin's letter to the workers of the "Ka-tushka"; and Yartsevo factories, Smolensk Gu-bernia, in
connection with the organisation of emulation for the exemplary carrying out of the elections to the Soviets is published
in Pravda, No. 274.
November 26
J. V. Stalin receives the secretaries of the district committees of the Moscow city organisation of the C.P.S.U.(B.).
November 27
J. V. Stalin receives leading Y.C.L. officials.
November 29
J. V. Stalin writes a message of greetings to the workers of the Krasny Profintern Factory (Bezhitsa) in connection with the
campaign for the elections to the Soviets. The greetings are published in Pravda, No. 278, November 30, 1928.
December 4
J. V. Stalin has a talk with a delegation of worker and peasant correspondents.
December 9
J. V. Stalin's greetings to the Frunze Military Academy on its tenth anniversary are published in Pravda, No. 286,
December 12
J. V. Stalin has a talk with members of the staff of Izvestia.
December 19
J. V. Stalin delivers a speech on The Right Danger in the German Communist Party at a sitting of the Presidium of
the E.C.C.I.
J. V. Stalin has a talk with leading officials of the Komi Region on the reorganisation of administrative districts.
December 28
J. V. Stalin writes a "Reply to Kushtysev.";
End of January and beginning of February
J. V. Stalin delivers speeches on "Bukharin's Group and the Right Deviation in Our Party"; at a joint meeting
of the Political Bureau of the C.C. and Presidium of the C.C.C.,C.P.S.U.(B.).
February 2
J. V. Stalin writes a "Reply to Bill-Belotser-kovsky.";
J. V. Stalin writes a message of greetings to the working men and women of the Krasny Treu-golnik Factory in connection with
the adoption of the seven-hour day. The greetings are published in Leningradskaya Pravda, No. 28, February 3, 1929.
February 12
J. V. Stalin has a talk with a delegation of Ukrainian writers.
February 22
J. V. Stalin sends a telegram of greetings to the Red Army men, commanders and political officers of the First Red Cossack
Regiment, stationed at Proskurov, on the occasion of the eleventhanniversaryoftheRed Army.
March 1
J. V. Stalin's greetings on the occasion of the publication of Selskokhozyaistvennaya Gazeta are published in
the first issue of the newspaper.
March 14
The Second Leningrad Regional Party Conference elects J. V. Stalin to the Leningrad Regional Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.).
March 18
J. V. Stalin writes "The National Question and Leninism. Reply to Comrades Meshkov, Kovalchuk, and Others
March 30
J. V. Stalin attends a joint meeting of the Presidiums of the Central Executive Committee of the U.S.S.R., of the All-Russian
Central Executive Committee, and of the Councils of People's Commissars of the U.S.S.R. and R.S.F.S.R., arranged in honour
of M. I. Kalinin on the occasion of his tenth anniversary as President of the A.R.C.E.C. and C.E.C. of the U.S.S.R.