1931
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.
