transliteration commissar often refers specifically to the political commissars of Soviet and Eastern-bloc armies or to the people's commissars (effectively...
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In the military, a political commissar or political officer (or politruk, a portmanteau word from Russian: политический руководитель, romanized: politicheskiy...
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The Commissar Order (German: Kommissarbefehl) was an order issued by the German High Command (OKW) on 6 June 1941 before Operation Barbarossa. Its official...
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The Yogi and the Commissar (1945) is a collection of essays of Arthur Koestler, divided in three parts: Meanderings, Exhortations and Explorations. In...
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NKVD (redirect from People's Commissar of Internal Affairs)
into NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs) under a People's Commissar. However, the NKVD apparatus was overwhelmed by duties inherited from...
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The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia is a 1997 book by David King about the censoring of photographs and...
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Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) (redirect from Peoples Commissar of Defense)
Chief of the General Staff (Russia) Cheget The committee of the People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs consisted of Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko...
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Nikolai Yezhov (redirect from The Vanishing Commissar)
head of the department. From 1929 to 1930, he was the Deputy People's Commissar for Agriculture. In November 1930, he was appointed to the Head of several...
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The 26 Baku Commissars were Bolshevik and Left Socialist Revolutionary (SR) members of the Baku Commune. The commune was established in the city of Baku...
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Commissar (Russian: Комиссар, translit. Komissar) is a 1967 Soviet film directed by Aleksandr Askoldov based on one of Vasily Grossman's first short stories...
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Peter and the Commissar is a 1964 musical comedy album by Allan Sherman, recorded live with Arthur Fiedler conducting the Boston Pops Orchestra and five...
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Gossnab (redirect from Commissar for food)
State Supplies of the USSR, known as the Gossnab of USSR (Russian: Госснаб СССР) was active from 1948 to 1953, and 1965 to 1991. Its full name was the...
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The Council of People's Commissars (CPC) (Russian: Совет народных комиссаров (СНК), romanized: Sovet narodnykh kommissarov (SNK)), commonly known as the...
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The Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was the government of Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1946. It was...
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Vasily Yakovlev (redirect from Commissar Yakovlev)
Vasily Vasilyevich Yakovlev (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Я́ковлев; 29 August [O.S. 17 August] 1885 – 16 September 1938) was a Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary...
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People's Commissariat for Nationalities (redirect from Commissar of Nationalities)
Joseph Stalin, as the People's Commissar of Nationalities (1917–23), served as a member of the Council of People's Commissars. It was established even before...
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Warhammer 40,000 (redirect from Commissar Yarrick)
Warhammer 40,000 is a miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop. It is the most popular miniature wargame in the world, and is particularly popular...
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Army commissar 2nd rank Army commissar 2nd rank was a political rank in the Soviet Red Army, equivalent to the military rank of Komandarm 2nd rank. Appointment...
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Ministry of Armaments (Soviet Union) (redirect from People's Commissar for Armament)
The Ministry of Armament (Russian: Министерство вооружения СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union. Before 1946 it was known as the People's...
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People's Commissars of the Soviet Union was the head of government of the Soviet Union during the existence of the Council of People's Commissars of the...
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Gaunt's Ghosts (redirect from Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt)
Sabbat Worlds Crusade. The protagonist is Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt, one of the few political commissars of the Imperium to be officially awarded command...
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Vladimir Zitta (section Left SR and People's Commissar)
during the Russian Revolution of 1917, and he briefly served as a people's commissar in 1918. He later emerged as a leader of the Left Socialist-Revolutionary...
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Poets and Madmen (redirect from Commissar (song))
of "The Rumor," and the first part of the main solo and the outro of "Commissar". The United States bonus track "Shotgun Innocence" was originally a bonus...
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Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), on 22 September 1935. On 20 November, the rank was conferred on five people: People's Commissar of Defence and...
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reorganization. The first people's commissar for Narkomvod was Nikolay Mikhaylovich Ianson, who had formerly been a people's commissar in the Russian Soviet Federative...
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People's Commissariat (redirect from People's commissar)
headed by a People's Commissar (Russian: народный комиссар; Narkom), which is part of the government – the Council of People's Commissars of the appropriate...
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Administrator of Affairs of the Soviet Union (redirect from Managing Director of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR)
The Administrator of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union and Council of Labour and Defense (Russian: Управляющие делами Совета...
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The Political Commissar of the People's Liberation Army Navy (simplified Chinese: 中国人民解放军海军政治委员; traditional Chinese: 中國人民解放軍海軍政治委員; pinyin: Zhōngguó...
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The Ministry of State Security (Russian: Министерство государственной безопасности, romanized: Ministerstvo gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, IPA: [mʲɪnʲɪˈsʲtʲerstvə...
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Grigory Sokolnikov (section Commissar for Finance)
Sokolnikov was appointed USSR Deputy People's Commissar of Finance on 10 January 1922. Since the People's Commissar, Nikolai Krestinsky had been appointed Ambassador...
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