Introduction: It is envisaged that MelGrosh will eventually combine several different suites of data bases. At the moment the first of these suites to be established is MelGrosh-Pol a series of databases related to Soviet Politics of the Stalin period. Melgrosh-pol currently contains data grouped into five sections: The first four sections contain data on politically significant individuals and their meetings. The final section contains data on materials produced by these political meetings. Section 1 is a directory of politically significant individuals. This directory contains the names of all the individuals who met Stalin in his Kremlin office and who were listed in his visitors book. It also contains the names of all individuals who were members of the major political bodies (Politburo, Orgburo, Secretariat, Central Committee, Central Control Committee) or who attended the sessions of any of these bodies. It also contains the names of all individuals appointed to senior state bodies, or to the collegia of those bodies. Finally it also contains the names of all individuals who attended certain Party Congresses. Some biographical data are available for some of these individuals. The basic bio-data often also contains details of when they joined the Communist Party, ie. Party Stazh. Section 2 contains details of the meetings between some of these individuals and Stalin. Attendances at meetings with Stalin were recorded in a haphazard way from the mid 1920s. From 1928 the time of commencement of meetings was recorded and from 1930 both the time of commencement and the time of completion of each meeting was recorded. Section 3 contains details of attendance at different sessions of the major party bodies: the politburo, Orgburo and secretariat and the Party Control Commission and its buro. Section 4 contains data on elections and appointments to the key party and state bodies. Section 5 contain a different set of data relating to materials rather than to individuals and meetings. Part of this section is a listing of the Politburo agenda items for each session of the Politburo. Another part is a listing of the different type of decrees produced by the Council of Peoples Commissars and the Council of Labour and Defence. This is a collaborative project involving researchers in Melbourne, Moscow, Birmingham and Chicago.