1921
January 1-2 J. V. Stalin directs the proceedings of the Conference of Communists of the Tyurk Peoples of the RSFSR; he delivers a speech at the opening of the conference and makes the report on the organisational question.
January 5 J. V. Stalin writes the article "Our Disagreements," published in Pravda, No. 12, of January 19, 1921.
January 14 J. V. Stalin makes a report on the current situation at a meeting in the theatre of the First Naval Coast Defense Detachment (Petrograd).
January 17 J. V. Stalin speaks at an enlarged session of the Moscow Committee of the RCP(B) on the role of the trade unions in industry, in opposition to the theses proposed by Trotsky and Bukharin, and in support of the Leninist "Platform of the Ten."
January 18 J. V. Stalin speaks at the enlarged session of the Moscow Committee of the RCP(B) in opposition to the proposal to transform the regular army into a militia, and in support of the proposal to strengthen the regular army.
January 19 J. V. Stalin presides at a meeting of the Council of Nationalities of the People's Commissariat for the Affairs of Nationalities and is elected to the commission set up to draft the regulations governing the Council.
February 6 J. V. Stalin's theses on "The Immediate Tasks of the Party in the National Question" are discussed at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP(B); a commission headed by V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin is appointed to make the final draft of the theses.
February 7 J. V. Stalin and V. I. Lenin, with the other members of the commission, edit the theses on the national question to be submitted to the Tenth Congress of the RCP(B).
February 10 J. V. Stalin's theses on "The Immediate Tasks of the Party in the National Question" are published in Pravda, No. 29.
February 12 J. V. Stalin has an interview with representatives of the Daghestan ASSR
February 15 J. V. Stalin sends a telegram to G. K. Orjonikidze, in Baku, containing the directives of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Eleventh Army, and asking for daily reports on the course of events in the Caucasus.
February 16 J. V. Stalin sends an enquiry to G. K. Orjonikidze about the state of affairs in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
February 28 J. V. Stalin writes a note to V. I. Lenin on the need to defend Batum against the Turks.
March 3 J. V. Stalin sends by direct wire V. I. Lenin's greetings and directives to the Georgian Communists.
March 5 J. V. Stalin makes a report to a meeting of the Council of Nationalities of the People's Commissariat for the Affairs of Nationalities on the results of the work of the commission appointed to draft the Statute of the Council of Nationalities.
March 8-16 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Tenth Congress of the RCP(B).
March 8 The Tenth Congress of the RCP(B) elects J. V. Stalin a member of the congress presidium.
March 9 J. V. Stalin takes part in the negotiations between the Soviet Government and a Turkish delegation.
March 10 J. V. Stalin makes the report on "The Immediate Tasks of the Party in the National Question" at the Tenth Congress of the RCP(B).
March 13 V. I. Lenin writes a note to J. V. Stalin proposing that delegates at the Tenth Congress of the RCP(B) be sent to take part in the suppression of the Kronstadt mutiny.
March 14 The Tenth Congress of the RCP(B) elects J. V. Stalin a member of the Central Committee of the RCP(B).
March 16 J. V. Stalin makes a statement at the Tenth Congress of the RCP(B) on behalf of the commission appointed to draft the resolution on the national question.
March 16 The Plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) elects J. V. Stalin a member of the Political Bureau and of the Organisational Bureau of the Central Committee of the Party.
March J. V. Stalin writes a letter to V. I. Lenin about the plan for the electrification of Russia.
April 16 J. V. Stalin sends V. I. Lenin his observations on the draft regulations governing the Central Fuel Administration.
April 19 J. V. Stalin attends a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars and is elected a member of the commission appointed to draft a decision on extending the powers of the Azerbaijanian Oil Committee.
April 22 J. V. Stalin submits to the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee the draft of a proposal by the People's Commissariat for the Affairs of Nationalities on the formation of a Komi Autonomous Region.
April 26 At a meeting of the Council of Nationalities of the People's Commissariat for the Affairs of Nationalities, J. V. Slalin reports on the amendments made by the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee to the "Statute of the Council of Nationalities," and takes part in the discussion on the question of forming the Komi Autonomous Region.
May 2 J. V. Stalin writes the article "Concerning the Presentation of the National Question," published in Pravda, No. 98, of May 8, 1921.
May 5 J. V. Stalin makes a statement to a meeting of the Collegium of the People's Commissariat for the Affairs of Nationalities on a draft decree making it obligatory for all People's Commissariats to submit to the People's Commissariat for the Affairs of Nationalities proposed laws and decisions affecting different nationalities.
May 10 J. V. Stalin speaks at a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars on the question of the local departments of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection.
May 16 J. V. Stalin presides at a meeting of the Collegium of the People's Commissariat for the Affairs of Nationalities. The Collegium decides to convene a congress of Yakut working people to discuss the question of forming a Yakut Autonomous Region.
May 16-25 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the commission appointed by the Central Committee of the RCP(B) to prepare for and conduct the Fourth All-Russian Congress of Trade Unions.
May 18 J. V. Stalin, on the instructions of the Central Committee of the RCP(B), speaks at a meeting of the Communist group at the Fourth All-Russian Congress of Trade Unions in opposition to a resolution proposed by the anarcho-syndicalist group on the report of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions to the congress.
May 19 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the commission appointed by a plenary session of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) to investigate Tomsky's anti-Party conduct at the Fourth All-Russian Congress of Trade Unions.
End of May J. V. Stalin goes to Nalchik to take a cure.
June 12 J. V. Stalin sends greetings to the Fourth Congress of Soviets of the Kabardinian territory.
June 17 J. V. Stalin telegraphs greetings to the First Congress of Highland Women.
End of June J. V. Stalin leaves Nalchik for Tiflis to take part in the work of a plenary session of the Caucasian Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP(B).
July 2-7 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the plenary session of the Caucasian Bureau of the. Central Committee of the RCP(B).
July 4 V. I. Lenin telegraphs G. K. Orjonikidze enquiring why J. V. Stalin's vacation was interrupted, and asking to be sent the opinion of the doctors on Stalin's state of health.
July 6 J. V. Stalin makes a report at a general meeting of the Tiflis Party organization on "The Immediate Tasks of Communism in Georgia and Transcaucasia." The report was published in the newspaper Pravda Gruzii, No. 108, of July 13, 1921.
July 7, 8, 14 J. V. Stalin takes part in the work of the Plenum of the Central Committee of the C.P.(B) of Georgia. On his proposal, the Plenum discusses the policy of the Communist Party of Georgia as regards restoring the national economy and strengthening the Soviet power.
July 25 V. I. Lenin enquires of G. K. Orjonikidze about the number of days J. V.. Stalin's vacation was interrupted, and asks for the name and address of the doctor treating J. V. Stalin.
August 8 J. V. Stalin leaves Nalchik for Moscow.
August 18 V. I. Lenin orders the State Planning Commission to render J.V. Stalin assistance in obtaining information on all economic affairs, particularly on the goldmining industry and on the Baku oil industry.
August 22 The Central Committee of the RCP(B) places J. V. Stalin in general charge of the Agitation and Propaganda Department of the Central Committee.
August 28 J.V. Stalin's article "The Party Before and After Taking Power" is published in Pravda, No. 190.
September 6-8 J. V. Stalin takes part in the proceedings of the commission appointed by the Central Committee of the RCP(B) to improve the work of the central administration of the railways.
September 22 At a meeting of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, J. V. Stalin is elected a member of the commission on the question of the division of land between the Highland population (Chechens) and the Cossacks.
September 27 J. V. Stalin receives V. I. Lenin's letter "Concerning the Question of the Tasks of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection, Their Interpretation and Execution," and writes V. I. Lenin a "Reply on Inspection."
November 3 At a meeting of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, J. V. Stalin is elected to the commission appointed to make preparations for the Ninth All-Russian Congress of Soviets.
November 8 J. V. Stalin's article "The October Revolution and the National Policy of the Russian Communists" is published in the newspaper Zhizn Natsionalnostei (Life of the Nationalities), No. 24 (122).
November 13 J. V. Stalin delivers a lecture at the club of the Krasnaya Presnya District Party Committee on. "The Political Strategy and Tactics of the Communists and the New Economic Policy."
November 17 J. V. Stalin takes part in the meeting of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, which examines the question of agricultural communes, artels and societies for the joint cultivation of the land.
November 18 The Central Committee of the RCP(B) appoints J. V. Stalin as one of the editors of its organ, Vestnik Agitatsii i Propagandy (Bulletin of Agitation and Propaganda).
November 28 J.V. Stalin receives from V. I. Lenin the draft of a proposal for the formation of a federation of Transcaucasian republics, and writes his observations on it and an amendment to it. V. I. Lenin accepts the amendment.
November 29 The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) adopts the resolution proposed by V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin on the federation of the Transcaucaeian republics.
December 18 J. V. Stalin's article "The Prospects" is published in Pravda, No, 286.
December 20 J. V. Stalin and the other members of the Council of People's Commissars sign the draft of the Council's decision on the plan for the electrification of the RSFSR
December 23 The Ninth All-Russian Congress of Soviets elects J. V. Stalin to its presidium.
December 28 The Ninth All-Russian Congress of Soviets elects J. V. Stalin a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
December 29 The First Session of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Ninth Convocation, elects J. V. Stalin a member of the Presidium of the All-Russian C.E.C. and appoints him People's Commissar for the Affairs of Nationalities and People's Commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection.
December J. V. Stalin takes part in the proceedings of the commission of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) on work in the countryside.
