1923
January 2 J. V. Stalin takes part in the proceedings of the commission appointed by the Commissariat for the Affairs of Nationalities to examine the question of forming a Buryat-Mongolian ASSR.
January 10 The Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR elects J. V. Stalin to the commission appointed to draw up a plan of organization of the People's Commissariats of the USSR.
January 22 J. V. Stalin delivers a lecture at the Sverdlov Communist University on "The Party's Strategy and Tactics."
February 4 J. V. Stalin submits to the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) a proposal that a second chamber be formed in the Central Executive Committee of Ihe USSR, to be an organ representing the interests of all the peoples of the USSR.
February 21-24 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Plenum of the Central Commit tee of the RCP(B).
February 21 A plenary session of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) discusses J. V. Stalin's draft theses on the national question for the Twelfth Party Congress. A commission headed by J. V. Stalin is appointed to make the final draft of the theses.
The Plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) elects J. V. Stalin to the commission to make the final draft of the Central Committee's theses on the organisational question for the Twelfth Party Congress.
February 24 The Plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) appoints a commission, beaded by J. V. Stalin, to direct the drafting of the Constitution of the USSR.
March 11-12 On the instructions of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP(B),
J. V. Stalin telegraphs all the Gubernia Committees, Regional Committees, Central Committees of national Communist Parties and members of the Central Committee informing them of the state of health of V. I. Lenin.
March 14 J. V. Stalin's article "Concerning the Question of the Strategy and Tactics of the Russian Communists" is published in Pravda, No. 56, which is devoted to the twenty-fifth anniversary of the RCP(B).
March 22 J. V. Stalin submits to the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) theses on the national question for the Twelfth Party Congress. The Political Bureau decides to publish them as theses approved by the Central Committee of the RCP(B).
March 24 J. V. Stalin's theses "National Factors in Party and State Affairs" are published in Pravda, No. 65.
April 3 The Tenth Moscow Gubernia Party Conference elects J. V. Stalin as a delegate to the Twelfth Congress of the RCP(B).
April 17-25 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Twelfth Congress of the RCP(B).
April 17 The Twelfth Congress of the RCP(B) elects J. V. Stalin to its presidium.
J. V. Stalin delivers the Central Committee's organizational report at the Twelfth Congress of the RCP(B).
April 19 J. V. Stalin replies to the discussion at the Twelfth Congress of the RCP(B) on the Central Committee's organizational report.
April 23 J. V. Stalin reports at the Twelfth Congress of the RCP(B) on "National Factors in Party and State Affairs."
April 24 The Twelfth Congress of the RCP(B) elects J. V. Stalin to the Central Committee of the Party.
April 25 J. V. Stalin directs the work of the committee on the national question of the Twelfth Congress of the RCP(B) and speaks in that committee on questions connected with the Constitution of the USSR.
J. V. Stalin replies to the discussion at the Twelfth Congress of the RCP(B) on the report on "National Factors in Party and State Affairs."
April 26 A. plenary session of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) elects J. V. Stalin a member of the Political Bureau and of the Organizational Bureau and a representative on the Central Control Commission, and appoints him General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party.
May 6 J. V. Stalin's article "The Press as a Collective Organizer" is published in Pravda, No. 99.
May 10 J. V. Stalin's article "Confusion Worse Confounded..." is published in Pravda, No. 102.
May 24 The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP(÷) appoints J. V. Stalin a representative of the RSFSR on the enlarged commission of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR for drafting the Constitution of the USSR.
May-June J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the enlarged commission of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR for drafting the Constitution.
June 1 J. V. Stalin makes a statement at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) on the preparations for the Fourth Conference of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) With Responsible Workers of the National Republics and Regions. The Political Bureau endorses the draft platform on the national question proposed by J. V. Stalin.
June 9-12 J. V. Stalin directs the work of the Fourth Conference of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) With Responsible Workers of the National Republics and Regions.
June 10 At the Fourth Conference of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) With Responsible Workers of the National Republics and Regions, J. V. Stalin delivers a speech on the "Right" and "Lefts" in the national republics and regions, and a report on the practical measures for implementing the resolution on the national question adopted by the Twelfth Congress of the RCP(B).
June 13 J. V. Stalin replies to the discussion on report to the Fourth Conference of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) With Responsible Workers of the National Republics and Regions.
June 14 At a meeting of the enlarged commission of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR for drafting the Constitution of the USSR, J. V. Stalin speaks on the principle of common citizenship throughout the USSR.
June 22-23 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Plenum of the Central Control Commission of the RCP(B).
June 26 J. V. Stalin delivers a report on the Constitution of the USSR to the Plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP(B,).
July 8 Pravda No. 151, publishes the appeal of the Central Committee of the RCP(B), signed by J. V. Stalin, requesting that all notes, letters, memoranda and other documents written by V. I. Lenin be sent to the Lenin Institute that is being organized in Moscow.
July 14 Pravda, No. 156, publishes the appeal "To All Peoples and Governments of the World." signed by J. V. Stalin and the other members of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee, issued in connection with the ratification of the Constitution of the USSR by the C.E.C.
September 23-25 J. V. Stalin directs the work of the Plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP(B).
October 25-27 J. V. Stalin directs the work of the joint Plenum of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission of the RCP(B), held in conjunction with representatives of ten Party organizations.
November 7 J. V. Stalin's article "The October Revolution and the Question of the Middle Strata" is published in Pravda, No. 253.
November 10 J. V. Stalin writes the article "The Fifth Anniversary of the First Congress of Working Women and Peasant Women," published in the magazine Kommunistka (Woman Communist), No. 11, November 1923.
November 17 J. V. Stalin delivers a speech at a meeting at the Military Academy, held to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the Cavalry Army.
December 2 J. V. Stalin delivers a report on "The Party's Tasks" at an enlarged meeting of the Krasnaya Presnya District Committee of the RCP(B).
Before December 5 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the subcommission of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) for drafting the resolution on Party affairs. The resolution was adopted at a joint session of the Political Bureau of the RCP(B) and the Presidium of the Central Control Commission on December 5, and published in Pravda, No. 278, December 7.
December 16 Pravda, No. 285, publishes J. V. Stalin's article "The Discussion, Rafail, the Articles by Preobrazhensky and Sapronov and Trotsky's Letter," and the statement of the Central Committee of the RCP(B), signed by J. V. Stalin, to all the organisations of the RCP(B) concerning the discussion on the internal situation in the Party.
December 28 J. V. Stalin's article "A Necessary Comment (Concerning Rafail)" is published in Pravda, No. 294.
