Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After having been denied a position in the Union Council of People's Commissars (Cabinet) by the Union Congress of Soviets (TIME, June 1), ex-War Lord Leon Trotzky was last week appointed to a departmental post in the Supreme Economic Council under Commissar Dzerzhinzky...
According to a despatch from Moscow, ex-War Lord Leon Trotzky was not elected a member of the Council of People's Commissars, as stated in TIME last week (Page 10, col. 1). It was expected that M. Trotzky would be made Commissar of Foreign Trade; but, at the eleventh hour, it was decided that any rearrangement of the Council would be interpreted abroad as a symptom of weakness. The election of Trotzky referred to last week was to the Federal Congress of Soviets. A report from Moscow, via Berlin, stated that Ivan Stalin was using Trotzky...
Lately, in a letter to Comrade Dzierzynzky, Chief Commissar of the Supreme Economic Council, demurring against his imprisonment, he wrote...
...short time, he was Foreign Commissar; but, early in 1918, he be came Commissar of War or Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army, a posi tion which he held until last February. The dominating trait of his character is energy. One week he was in Siberia, another at Moscow, another at Sevastapol. Always was he on the move. His discipline made that of the Tsars a sort of mother's love and it was said that every officer and soldier went in terror of his life. So much for his efficiency...
...Also Commissar of Foreign Trade...