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 Joseph Stalin. Biography of the great Russian Communist Leader. 1920
January 20 At a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars, J. Stalin makes a report on the "Statute of the Ukrainian Labor Army Council." The C.P.C. endorses the "Statute" and appoints J. Stalin Chairman of the Ukrainian Labor Army Council.
February 16 J. Stalin presides at the first meeting of the Ukrainian Labor Army Council and reports on the constitution of the Council and its tasks.
February 20 J. Stalin signs decisions of the Ukrainian Labor Army Council on the militarization of the Donbas coal industry and on the supply of prime necessities to the workers.
http://www.stel.ru/stalin/ussr_1920.htm

  
 Glossary of Organisations: So
Formed by the Second Congress of Soviets, the first Council of People's Commissars was elected as the legislative body of the R.S.F.S.R. In addition to the legislative body of the R.S.F.S.R., the Congress also elected the Central Executive Committee of Soviets as the executive body of the government.
local councils elected by local workers, are truly organs of workers power, and they had become subservient to the Communist Party.
These urban and rural soviets are grouped first in a volost congress, then in district congresses, then in the regional congresses, and lastly in the pan-Russian Congress of Soviets, made up of urban soviets' delegates (one for every 25,000 inhabitants) and of provincial congress delegates (one for every 125,000 inhabitants).
http://www.marxists.org/glossary/orgs/s/o.htm

  
 RYKOV, Aleksey Ivanovich (Russia)
In 1921, he was made deputy chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense (26 May 1921 - 2 Feb 1924) and deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR (29 Dec 1921 - 2 Feb 1924).
Председатель Совета Народных Комиссаров РСФСР (Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR)
Despite this schism, Rykov accepted the post of chairman of the Supreme Council of National Economy (3 Apr 1918 - 28 May 1921).
http://www.archontology.org/nations/rus/rus_govt1/rykov.php

  
 Glossary of Events: All-Russian Congress of the Soviet
The Congress closed by electing a Council of People's Commissars and an All-Russian Central Executive Committee for the new Soviet Government, pending the convocation of the Constituent Assembly.
At its end, the Congress resolved to elect a Central Executive Committee (CEC) to act in the interim of its absence, for the Congress was not to meet for another three months.
The Congress voted 543 to 126 (52 abstentions) to support the Provisional government, though the socialist ministers in the Provisional government (SRs and Mensheviks) were told to be obliged to decisions made by the Soviets.
http://www.marxists.org/glossary/events/a/arcs.htm   (763 words)

  
 Glossary of Organisations: Co
The legislative body of the Soviet government, the Council of Peoples Commissars was formed by the Second Congress of Soviets; the first members elected to the council by the congress:
He went to London in the company of Victor Tedesco, member of the Communist League and also a delegate to the Second Congress.
Engels had a significant impact throughout the congress -- which, as it turned out, was really the "inaugural Congress" of what became known as the Communist League.
http://www.marxists.org/glossary/orgs/c/o.htm   (3798 words)

  
 Premier of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (July 6, 1923 - January 21, 1924); also Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR (November 8 [October 26 Old Style]1917 - 1924)
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR
Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (May 6, 1941 - March 15, 1946)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_of_the_Soviet_Union   (3798 words)

  
 List of leaders of the Soviet Union: Information From Answers.com
The "Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet" was the equivalent of President of the state while "Chairman of the Council of Ministers" and "Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars" were equivalent to Premier or Prime Minister.
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-leaders-of-the-soviet-union   (3798 words)

  
 Alexei Rykov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Despite his differences with Vladimir Lenin, Rykov was appointed Commissar of the Interior (1917-18), Chairman of the Supreme Council of National Economy (1918-20) and Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1921-24) and Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1924-29).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Rykov   (3798 words)

  
 Glossary of Organisations: Co
The legislative body of the Soviet government, the Council of Peoples Commissars was formed by the Second Congress of Soviets; the first members elected to the council by the congress:
Decimated by Stalin's purges and persecuted by the Nazis, in Stalin ordered it merged in 1948 with the PPS to create the major party of the Polish People's Republic, the Polish United Workers' Party (PZRP).
The precurser of the Polish Communist Party formed in 1918 by leaders of the SDKPiL and PPS-Lewica.
http://www.marx.org/glossary/orgs/c/o.htm   (3798 words)

  
 Russian Revolution of 1917, series of events in imperial Russia that culminated in 1917 with the establishment of the Soviet state that became known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
In November the Council of People's Commissars also proclaimed the right of self-determination, including voluntary separation from Russia of the nationalities forcibly included in the czarist empire, but made it clear that it hoped that the "toiling masses" of the various nationalities would decide to remain with Russia.
The first elections to the Petrograd Soviet (council) of Workers' Deputies were held in several factories, on the model of the Soviet of 1905, which had been formed during a revolution at the end of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905).
Nicholas dissolved the Duma; the deputies accepted the decree but reassembled privately and elected a provisional committee of the State Duma to act in its place.
http://www.emayzine.com/lectures/russianrev.html   (3798 words)

  
 The Murder of Russia's Imperial Family, Appendix
The Soviet government, or "Council of People's Commissars' (also known as the "Sovnarkom") was made up of the following, Wilton reported:
"In order not to leave myself open to any accusation of prejudice, I am giving the list of the members of the [Bolshevik Party' s] Central Committee, of the Extraordinary Commission [Cheka or secret police], and of the Council of Commissars functioning at the time of the assassination of the Imperial family.
Effective governmental power, Wilton continued (on pages 136-138 of the same edition) is in the Central Committee of the Bolshevik party.
http://library.flawlesslogic.com/tsar_3.htm   (3798 words)

  
 Glossary of People: St
Half of the members of the first Council of Peoples Commissars were executed in 1938 (A quarter of them had died natural deaths before hand, of the remaining quarter only Stalin lived past 1942).
Founder of the German People's Party after World War I, served briefly as chancellor in 1923 and was foreign minister, 1923-29.
Also executed were people belonging to the right-wing of the party (Bukharin and others).
http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/s/t.htm   (1161 words)

  
 On Procedure for Declassification of and Extension of Classification Limits on USSR Government Archival Documents - Statute - 01 March 1995
This Statute defines USSR Government documents as archival documents of the USSR Council of People's Commissars, the USSR Council of Ministers, the USSR Cabinet of Ministers and their permanent bodies, as well as the Committee for Operational Management of the USSR Economy and the Interstate Economic Committee.
A draft decision by the Interagency Group of Experts must be reviewed by the Interagency Commission and approved by its chairman.
The directors of the Russian Federation Presidential Archive, the Russian Federation Government Archive and the Russian Federation State Archive shall in the cases enumerated in Point 8 of this Statute:
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/russia/docs/statute_950301.htm   (1161 words)

  
 Meeting Of The All-Russia Central Executive Committee
The question was addressed to Lenin, as the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, at a meeting of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee on November 4 (17), 1917, in connection with the issue of several decrees by the Council of People's Commissars without the sanction of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee.
The Central Executive Committee authorises the Council of Peoples Commissars to nominate, by the next sitting, candidates for the Peoples Commissars of the Interior, and Trade and Industry, and invites Comrade Kolegayev to fill the post of Peoples Commissar of Agriculture.
Because his wording could lead to undesirable consequences, the All-Russia Central Executive Committee on November 2 (15) asked the People's Commissariat of the Interior to rescind it.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/nov/04a.htm   (2002 words)

  
 On the Crimean Tatars
g) By 20 May of this year, the Uzbek SSR Central Committee and Council of People's Commissars are to submit to the USSR NKVD (comrade Beria) a plan for the settlement of the special settlers in the oblasts and raions, indicating the destination points of the trains.
Every month during the June-August 1944 period, equal quantities of flour, groats, and vegetables will be allocated by the USSR People's Commissariat of Procurement (comrade Subbotin) to the Uzbek SSR Council of People's Commissars for distribution to the special settlers, in accordance with Appendix No. 2.
In May of this year, the People's Commissariat of Finance (comrade Zverev) is to transfer 30 million rubles from the reserve fund of the USSR Council of People's Commissars to the USSR NKVD, for the implementation of special measures.
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Experimental/soviet.exhibit/l2tartar.html   (1031 words)

  
 Eighth All-Russia Congress of Soviets December 29, 1920, Part III
The Congress instructs the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, the Council of Peoples Commissars, the Council of Labour and Defence, the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy and also the other Peoples Commissariats to complete the elaboration of this plan and to endorse it without fail at the earliest date.
[2] The meeting of the Communist group of the Congress, called in the morning of December 24, 1920, was devoted to a discussion of the bill presented by the Council of Peoples Commissars on measures to promote peasant farming.
The Congress further instructs the government and requests the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions and the All-Russia Congress of Trade Unions to take all measures to conduct the widest possible propaganda for this plan and to make the broadest sections of the population in town and countryside familiar with it.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/8thcong/ch03.htm   (1031 words)

  
 FINAL revised copy of this
SOVnarkom - Soviet NK, Council of People's Commissars.
Therefore, a Narkom would be a contraction for a People's Commissar.
Council of Peoples Commissars would be "Sov Nar Kom" - Sovnarkom.
http://www.geocities.com/redcomrades/nkvdinfo.html   (2835 words)

  
 THE POLITBURO OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION (BOLSHEVIKS) AND SOVIETIZATION OF THE TERRITORIES ANNEXED IN 1939–1941
On 22 August, the highest body of the party approved the candidates to the posts of the chairman and deputy chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and the post of the chairman of the Council of Peoples Commissars of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
On 14 August, the highest party body approved the framework decision of the CPSU’s Central Committee and the Council of Peoples Commissars of the USSR on the organisation of public administration and development of economy of Soviet Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, i.e.
The highest party body approved the decision of 28 May 1940 of the Council of Peoples Commissars and the CPSU’s Central Committee concerning the measures of economic recovery for the new regions of the Karelian-Finnish SSR and the Leningrad region.
http://www.genocid.lt/GRTD/Konferencijos/eng/natalija.htm   (6842 words)

  
 Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine on Blacklisting Villages That Maliciously Sabotage the Collection of Grain
The Council of People's Commissars and the Central Committee resolve:
Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine on Blacklisting Villages That Maliciously Sabotage the Collection of Grain.
Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine on Blacklisting Villages That Maliciously Sabotage the Collection of Grain
http://www.russiannewsnetwork.com/ukra-famine1.html   (6842 words)

  
 The Avalon Project : Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939-1941
Memorandum of a Conversation Held on the Night of August 23d to 24th, Between the Reich Foreign Minister, on the One Hand, and Herr Stalin and the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Molotov, on the Other Hand : August 23-24, 1939
The Reich Foreign Minister to the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union.
The Reich Foreign Minister to the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union (Molotov) : September 28, 1939
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/nazsov/nazsov.htm   (6842 words)

  
 Soviet republics
Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars (from 25 Mar 1946, chairmen of the Council of Ministers) 19 Feb 1920 - 15 Jul 1923 Christian Georgyevich Rakovsky (b.
Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars (from 1946, chairmen of the Council of Ministers) 1922 - 1928 Gazanfar Makhmud ogly Musabekov (s.a.) 14 Mar 1930 - 1932 Dadash Khodzha ogly Buniyatzade (b.
Ukrainian S.S.R. Jun 1941 - 1944 German occupation First secretaries of the Communist Party Mar 1921 - May 1925 Emmanuil Ionovich Kviring (b.
http://www.rulers.org/sovrep.html   (6842 words)

  
 Soviet republics
Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars (from 15 Apr 1946, chairmen of the Council of Ministers) Feb 1922 - 1923 Sergey Ivanovich Kavtaradze (b.
Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars (from 23 Mar 1946, chairmen of the Council of Ministers) 8 Nov 1917 - 21 Jan 1924 Vladimir Ilich Lenin (b.
Azerbaijan S.S.R. 13 Dec 1922 - 5 Dec 1936 part of the Transcaucasian S.F.S.R. (see under Georgian S.S.R. First secretaries of the Communist Party 12 Feb 1920 - 28 Apr 1920 Mirza Davud Bagir ogly Husseynov (b.
http://rulers.org/sovrep.html   (6678 words)

  
 RIA Novosti
RIA Novosti’s history dates back to June 24, 1941 when by a resolution of the USSR Council of Peoples Commissars and the Communist Party Central Committee, “On the Establishment and Tasks of the Soviet Information Bureau”, the Soviet Information Bureau (Sovinformburo) was set up under the USSR Council of Peoples Commissars and the Central Committee.
RIA Novosti’s clients include the presidential administration, Russian government, Federation Council, State Duma, leading ministries and government departments, administrations of Federation subjects, representatives of Russian and foreign business communities, diplomatic missions and public organizations.
In 1993, by a decree of the Russian president of September 15, 1993 “On the Russian Information Agency Novosti,” RIA Novosti became a state news-analytical agency.
http://en.rian.ru/about   (1234 words)

  
 Nikolai Bukharin and the Power Struggle
Alexei Rykov, Bukharin's friend, ally, fellow Politburo member, NEP man and was also the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars.
In charge of NEP was Bukharin and his friends Mikhail Tomsky, the Trade Union chief, and Alexei Rykov, the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars.
Now pretty much the only people who stood between Stalin and control over the USSR were Bukharin and his friends Rykov, Tomsky, Sergei Kirov (who was a friend of Stalin's but later joined Bukharin's crowd), and their friends and supporters.
http://www.angelfire.com/vamp2/nikolaibukharin/powerstruggle.html   (612 words)

  
 Alexei Rykov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Despite his differences with Vladimir Lenin, Rykov was appointed Commissar of the Interior (1917-18), Chairman of the Supreme Council of National Economy (1918-20) and Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1921-24) and Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1924-29).
Rykov was found guilty of treason and executed.
In 1938 Rykov, Bukharin, Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Krestinsky and Christian Rakovsky were arrested and accused of being involved with Trotsky in a plot against Stalin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Rykov   (280 words)

  
 Glossary of People: No
During the period of the Provisional Government before the October Revolution, Nogin, along with Kamenev, Zinoviev, Rykov, Lunacharsky and Miliutin, opposed calling for the overthrow of the Provisional Government, and resigned from both the Central Committee and the Council of People's Commissars in protest, but all subsequently supported Lenin's policy for an insurrection.
After the Revolution, Nogin was a member of first Council of People's Commissars, i.e., the first Soviet Government, and People's Commissar for Commerce and Industry.
Czechoslovakian CP early 1953; focussed economy on development of heavy industry; resigned March 1968, in face of mounting opposition and isolation within the Party.
http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/n/o.htm   (280 words)

  
 THE POLITBURO OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION (BOLSHEVIKS) AND SOVIETIZATION OF THE TERRITORIES ANNEXED IN 1939–1941
On 14 August, the highest party body approved the framework decision of the CPSU’s Central Committee and the Council of Peoples Commissars of the USSR on the organisation of public administration and development of economy of Soviet Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, i.e.
On 28 December, the Politburo approved the decision of the Council of Peoples Commissars of the USSR and the CPSU’s Central Committee on taxes and charges levied on farms in Soviet Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
The CP Central Committees of Soviet Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia together with the Peoples Commissariat of State Security and NKVD of the USSR were jointly responsible for conducting the operation which, according to the plan, had to be finished in three days.
http://www.genocid.lt/GRTD/Konferencijos/eng/natalija.htm   (280 words)

  
 Russia News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News
In Russia, the Council of People's Commissars was established as the new government of Russia, and it named Lenin as Chairman, Trotsky as foreign Commissar and Stalin as Commissar of nationalities.
In Russia, the Council of People's Commissars was established as the new government of Russia, and it named Lenin as Chairman, Trotsky as foreign commissar and Stalin as commissar of nationalities.
Abductors kidnap three people, including policeman, in Chechnya
http://www.russiatoday.com/   (280 words)

  
 MVD . People's Commissar . Russian SFSR . 1968 . 1990 . 1946 . 1800s . Russia . Narodnaya Volya . 1802 . Leninism
A ministry was called People s Commissariat Russian: Narkomat, whose main governing body was the Council of People s Commissars Russian: Sovnarkom.
From 1919 to 1946, functions of ministers in the government of Russia and, later, the Soviet Union were performed by People s Commissars Russian title: Narodny Komissar, or Narkom.
Narodnaya Volya Народная воля in Russian language Russian, known as People’s Will in English language English was a Russian revolutionary organization in the early 1880s.
http://www.uk.knowledge-info.org/MVD   (601 words)

  
 Joseph Stalin. Biography of the great Russian Communist Leader. 1919
April 3 At a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars, J. Stalin makes a report on a draft decree on the reorganization of State Control.
J. Stalin attends a meeting of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, where, on his suggestion, it is decided to form a composite division for action on the Southern Front comprised of regiments of the Western Front, and also to institute a Southern Front Formations Board.
May 30 J. Stalin confers with the Commander-in-Chief, representatives of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, and the commanders of the Western Front, the Seventh Army and the Baltic Fleet on measures for the defence of the approaches to Petrograd.
http://www.stel.ru/stalin/Soviet_power_1919.htm   (2596 words)

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