Stalin CW Volume 5
Volume 5 1921-23
Preface
SPEECH AT THE OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE OF COMMUNISTS OF THE TYURK PEOPLES OF THE R.S.F.S.R., January 1, 1921 (Record in the Minutes)
OUR DISAGREEMENTS
I. Two Methods of Approach to the Mass of the Workers
II. Conscious Democracy and Forced “Democracy”
THE IMMEDIATE TASKS OF THE PARTY IN THE NATIONAL QUESTION. Theses for the Tenth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) Endorsed by the Central Committee of the Party
I. The Capitalist System and National Oppression
II. The Soviet System and National Freedom
III. The Immediate Tasks of the R.C.P.
THE TENTH CONGRESS OF THE R.C.P.(B.), March 8-16, 1921
1. Report on the Immediate Tasks of the Party in the National Question, March 10
2. Reply to the Discussion, March 10
A LETTER TO V. I. LENIN
CONCERNING THE PRESENTATION OF THE NATIONAL QUESTION
GREETINGS TO THE FIRST CONGRESS OF HIGHLAND WOMEN
THE POLITICAL STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS. Synopsis of a Pamphlet
I. Definition of Terms and Subject of Investigation
II. Historic Turns in the Development of Russia
III. Questions
THE IMMEDIATE TASKS OF COMMUNISM IN GEORGIA AND TRANSCAUCASIA. Report to a General Meeting of the Tiflis Organisation of the Communist Party of Georgia, July 6, 1921
THE PARTY BEFORE AND AFTER TAKING POWER
THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION AND THE NATIONAL POLICY OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS
THE PROSPECTS
1922
TO PRAVDA
THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF PRAVDA (Reminiscences)
1. The Lena Events
2. The Foundation of Pravda
3. The Organisational Significance of Pravda
COMRADE LENIN ON VACATION. NOTES
GREETINGS TO PETROGRAD, TO THE SOVIET OF DEPUTIES
THE QUESTION OF THE UNION OF THE INDEPENDENT NATIONAL REPUBLICS Interview With a Pravda Correspondent
THE UNION OF THE SOVIET REPUBLICS Report Delivered at the Tenth All-Russian Congress of Soviets, December 26, 1922
THE FORMATION OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS Report Delivered at the First Congress of Soviets of the U.S.S.R., December 30, 1922
1923
CONCERNING THE QUESTION OF THE STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS
I. Preliminary Concepts
1. Two Aspects of the Working-Class Movement
2. The Theory and Programme of Marxism
3. Strategy
4. Tactics
5. Forms of Struggle
6. Forms of Organisation
7. The Slogan. The Directive
II. The Strategic Plan
1. Historic Turns. Strategic Plans
2. The First Historic Turn and the Course Towards the Bourgeois-Democratic Revolution in Russia
3. The Second Historic Turn and the Course Towards the Dictatorship of the Proletariat in Russia
4. The Third Historic Turn and the Course Towards the Proletarian Revolution in Europe
NATIONAL FACTORS IN PARTY AND STATE AFFAIRS
Theses for the Twelfth Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Approved by the Central Committee of the Party
I
II
THE TWELFTH CONGRESS OF THE R.C.P.(B.), April 17-25, 1923
1. The Organisational Report of the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.), April 17
2. Reply to the Discussion on the Central Committee’s Organisational Report, April 19
3. Report on National Factors in Party and State Affairs, April 23
4. Reply to the Discussion on the Report on National Factors in Party and State Affairs, April 25
5. Answer on the Amendments to the Resolution, April 25
6. Supplement to the Report of the Commission on the National Question, April 25
THE PRESS AS A COLLECTIVE ORGANISER
CONFUSION WORSE CONFOUNDED
FOURTH CONFERENCE OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE R.C.P.(B.) WITH RESPONSIBLE WORKERS OF THE NATIONAL REPUBLICS AND REGIONS, June 9-12, 1923
1. Draft Platform on the National Question for the Fourth Conference, Endorsed by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee
The General Line on Party Work on the National Question
Questions Connected With the Institution or a Second Chamber or the Central Executive Committee or the Union and With the Organisation of the People’s Commissariats or the Union or Republics
Measures for Drawing Working People of the Local Population Into Party and Soviet Affairs
Measures to Raise the Cultural Level or the Local Population
Economic Construction in the National Republics and Regions From the Standpoint of the Specific National Features or Their Manner or Life
Practical Measures for the Organisation of National Military Units
The Organisation of Party Educational Work
Selection or Party and Soviet officials With a View to Implementing the Resolution on the National Question Adopted by the Twelfth Congress
2. Rights and “Lefts” in the National Republics and Regions. Speech on the First Item of the Conference Agenda: “The Sultan-Galiyev Case,” June 10
3. Practical Measures for Implementing the Resolution on the National Question Adopted by the Twelfth Party Congress. Report on the Second Item of the Agenda, June 10
4. Reply to the Discussion, June 12
5. Reply to Speeches, June 12
THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION AND THE QUESTION OF THE MIDDLE STRATA
THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST CONGRESS OF WORKING WOMEN AND PEASANT WOMEN
SPEECH AT A CELEBRATION MEETING AT THE MILITARY ACADEMY, November 17, 1923 (Brief Newspaper Report)
THE PARTY’S TASKS. Report Delivered at an Enlarged Meeting of the Krasnaya Presnya District Committee of the R.C.P.(B.) With Group Organisers, Members of the Debating Society and of the Bureau of the Party Units, December 2, 1923
Discussion—a Sign of the Party’s Strength
Causes of the Discussion
Defects in Internal Party Life
The Causes of the Defects
How Should the Defects in Internal Party Life Be Removed?
THE DISCUSSION, RAFAIL, THE ARTICLES BY PREOBRAZHENSKY AND SAPRONOV, AND TROTSKY’S LETTER
The Discussion
Rafail
Preobrazhensky’s Article
Sapronov’s Article
Trotsky’s Letter
A NECESSARY COMMENT (Concerning Rafail)
GREETINGS TO THE NEWSPAPER COMMUNIST
Appendices
Appendix 1. Declaration on the Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Appendix 2. Treaty on the Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Notes
Biographical Chronicle (1921-1923)