-
transliteration commissar often refers specifically to the
political commissars of
Soviet and Eastern-bloc
armies or to the people's
commissars (effectively...
- In the military, a
political commissar or
political officer (or politruk, a
portmanteau word from Russian: политический руководитель, romanized: politicheskiy...
- The
Commissar Order (German: Kommissarbefehl) was an
order issued by the
German High
Command (OKW) on 6 June 1941
before Operation Barbarossa. Its official...
- The
Council of People's
Commissars (CPC) (Russian: Совет народных комиссаров (СНК), romanized: Sovet
narodnykh kommissarov (SNK)),
commonly known as the...
- 1944–1945: Emil
Hartung 1945–1945: Karl
Strohmaier (
commissarial) 1945–1946:
Rudolf Bisterfeld (
commissarial) 1946–1978:
Helmut Kaiser 1978–1992: Hans Köhler...
- into NKVD (People's
Commissariat of
Internal Affairs)
under a People's
Commissar. However, the NKVD
apparatus was
overwhelmed by
duties inherited from...
-
Commissar (Russian: Комиссар, translit. Komissar) is a 1967
Soviet film
directed by
Aleksandr Askoldov based on one of
Vasily Grossman's
first short stories...
- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
