This book contains a month by month biographical timeline of the life of Stalin from December 1926-July 1927.

This is the ninth volume in the Works series, authored by J. V. Stalin. This volume is proceeded by volume VIII. This volume is followed by volume X.

Includes bibliographic references.

The seventh enlarged plenum of the E.C.G.I. : I. preliminary remarks -- II. Specific features of the opposition in the C.P.S.U.(B.) -- III. The disagreements in the C.P.S.U.(B.) -- IV. The opposition at work -- V. Why the enemies of the dictatorship of the proletariat praise the opposition -- VI. Defeat of the opposition bloc -- VII. The practical meaning and importance of the fifteenth conference of the C.P.S.U.(B.) --

Letter to Ksenfontov -- Speech delivered at the fifteenth Moscow gubernia party conference -- Letter to comrade Zaitsev --To the Lena workers -- Greetings to the Stalingrad newspaper Borba -- Speech delivered at a meeting of workers of the Stalin railway workshops, October railway -- Letter to comrade Tsvetkov and Alypov -- Concerning the question of a workers' and peasants' government -- Letter to Shinkevich -- Speech delivered at the fifth all-union conference of the all-union Leninist young communist League -- Letter to Chugunov -- The party's three fundamental slogans on the peasant question -- Questions of the Chinese revolution -- To Pravda -- Concerning questions of the Chinese revolution -- Talk with students of the Sun Yat-sen university -- The slogan of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the poor peasanty in the period of preparation for October -- The revolutions in China and the tasks of the Comintern -- To the students of the communist university of the toilers of the east -- Reply to S. Pokrovsky -- Notes on contemporary themes.

This item is the ninth volume of the collected works of J. V. Stalin, more commonly known simply as Stalin. Throughout his writing, Stalin discusses topics covering imperialism, revolution, labor unions, the Soviet Union, military and industrial doctrine, Marxism, Communism, Leninism, Bolshevism, socialism, anarchism, and class struggle, just to name a handful of the what Stalin writes about. This volume series is exhaustive in it's coverage of Stalin's writings over the decades, starting in 1901 and going until 1934. Translation from Russian to English was performed by the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The same organization created the forwards to the volumes, and the biographical timeline of Stalin's life at the end of each volume, covering the same time period that the writings in the given volume emerge from. Overall, this series of volumes represents a close to complete collection of the writings, thought, and works of Joseph Stalin.

Translated from Russian to English.