March 9 Stalin organizes and leads a political demonstration of over 6,000 workers employed in the factories of Batum who demand the release of 300 demonstrators arrested by the police on March 8. Outside the prison where the arrested workers were being held, the demonstration was shot at by troops and 15 workers were killed and 54 were injured. About 500 demonstrators were arrested.
April 5 Stalin is arrested at a meeting of the leading Party group in Batum. He is held in Bactum prison but while he I there he still writes leaflets and organizes the social-democratic organisation.
1903
March The Caucasian Union of the RSDLP is formed at the First Congress of Caucasian Social-Democratic Labour Organizations, although still in prison Stalin is elected leader.
November 27 Stalin is deported to Siberia, while he is there he receives a letter from Lenin
1904
Stalin tours the cities of the Transcaucasia region starting Bolshevik groups and debating with Mensheviks, Anarchists and other political groups. He also produced hundred of leaflets condemning the actions of the Tsarist government in WW1 and the actions of police and military in the region. He also meets Lenin.
1906
Staling continues to produce hundreds of leaflets on democratic socialism and has many articles published in various underground papers.
1907
Stalin becomes editor of a legal newspaper, and continues with his many public speeches and manifestos.
1908
February The Baku Committee of the RSDLP, directed by Stalin, organizes a "Self-Defence Staff" because of the growing frequency of assaults. Stalin also organises a number of large strikes
March 25th Staling is arrested and held in Bailov prison
November 9th Stalin is deported to Vologda Gubernia for 2 years
1909
June 4th Stalin escaped exile and returns to Baku to lead the Bolshevik party there.
1910
Stalin is arrested and exiled to Solvychegodsk where he makes contact with Lenin
1911
Stalins exile is over but he is not allowed to go to the capital or any major industrial areas. He decides to go to Vologda but later secretly moves to St. Petersburg where he makes contact with the Bolshevik party but then is arrested and exiled to Vologda for 3 years
1912
Stalin is elected a member of the central committee of the Bolshevik party and later escapes exile and move to St. Petersburg where he starts the famous daily newspaper Pravda. Stalin is arrested again and is exiled to the Narym territory. Stalin escapes exile and returns to St. Petersburg to run the election campaign for the Fourth state Duma elections. Stalin meets with Lenin many times in Krakow and publishes yet more articles and leaflets in various newspapers.
1913-14
Stalin is arrested and sent to a hamlet north of the Arctic Circle
1915-16
Stalin writes to Lenin and others from exile and meets with other political exiles
1917
After the February revolution Stalin is freed from exile and returns to St. Petersburg, now Petrogard where he is appointed to the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. In the coming months Stalin attends hundreds of meetings of the Bolshevik party, the provisional Government and of the Petrograd Soviet as well as making public speeches and articles. Lenin and Stalin direct the second revolution and also ban all ‘bourgeois’ newspapers. Stalin and Lenin also declare Finland’s independence. Stalin becomes actinf chairman of the Council of People's Commissars while Lenin is on leave.
1918
January 8th The Council of People's Commissars appoints Stalin as a member of a commission for working out the food policy of the Soviet Government. Stalin and Lenin insist that peace must be made with the German and Stalin orders a diplomatic envoy to be sent to the Germans to sue for peace.
March 16 The Fourth Extraordinary All-Russian Congress of Soviets elects Stalin to the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. Stalin is appointed to get the transport system working and to get food to the north for the war.
October 8 By decision of the Council of People's Commissars Stalin is appointed a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic.
1919
Stalin toured the various military fronts during the civil war as a ‘politico-military leader’ also In 1919 he married Nadezhda Alliluyeva, who later committed suicide in 1932.
1920
Stalin Is elected to the Ninth Congress of the RCP(B). Also he is appointed to produce reports on the many problems of the army including clothing and supply problems. He is still having articles published on a regular basis.
1921
Stalin and Lenin edit the thesis “the national question” to be presented t the tenth congress of the RCP (B).
1922
Pravda has its tenth anniversary. The 11th and 12th of the RCP (B) elect Stalin as part of its presidium. Staling proposes a union of all the soviet states i.e. RSFSR, the Ukrainian S.S.R., the Byelorussian S.S.R. and the Transcaucasian Federation. They form the USSR
