Commissar

Commissar (?????????) was an official title used in post-revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union, as well as some other Communist countries. The usage of the title has been associated with a number of administrative and military functions in Bolshevik government. During the Russian Civil War, the White Army widely used the collective term bolsheviks and commissars for their opponents.

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There are two well established titles: People's Commissar (government) and political commissar (military).

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Russia: The Russian Federation (, transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija), or Russia (Russian: ???????, transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija), is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of Europe and Asia. With an area of 17,075,400 km? (6,595,600 mi?), it is the largest coun...

Soviet Union: The Soviet Union, also called The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (?????????? ?????; tr.: Sovetsky Soyuz or (????) ; tr.: Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik ), was an officially socialist state founded in 1922, centered on Russia, and dissolved in 1991. From 1945 until its d...

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