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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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of People's Commissars. As General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (then the Council...
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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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List of Warhammer 40,000 novels (redirect from Commissar Ciaphas Cain)
Richard Williams (August 2011) Iron Guard by Mark Clapham (July 2012) Commissar by Andy Hoare (January 2013) Baneblade by Guy Haley (April 2013) Straken...
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He served as the last political commissar of the PLA General Logistics Department and prior to that, political commissar of the PLA Academy of Military...
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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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Leon Trotsky (category People's commissars and ministers of the Soviet Union)
People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs negotiated the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, by which Russia withdrew from World War I. He served as People's Commissar for...
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and in 1925 Stalin appointed him People's Commissar for Military and Navy Affairs (later People's Commissar for Defence). In 1926, he became a full member...
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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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1946, the name of the office was Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, and from 1946 to 1991 its name was Chairman of the Council of Ministers...
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days earlier, surrendered to Lieutenant colonel Bùi Văn Tùng, political commissar of the 203rd Tank Brigade. Minh was escorted to Radio Saigon to announce...
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but returned at Sun's demand, and accepted Zhou Enlai as his political commissar. The early years at Whampoa allowed Chiang to cultivate a cadre of young...
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of Nazi mass killing after European Jews. Jewish prisoners of war and commissars were systematically executed. About a million civilians were killed by...
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and Hou Dejian and Zhou Duo met with Ji Xinguo, a regimental political commissar. They requested that the army give them time to evacuate, and to open...
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the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China and the current political commissar of the People's Liberation Army Information Support Force. He was promoted...
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People's Commissariat for Nationalities (redirect from Commissar of Nationalities)
Nationalities (1917–23), served as a member of the Council of People's Commissars. It was established even before the October Revolution on 11 June 1917...
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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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