In April , 1938 the director of the Kuznetsk steel plant, Konstantin Butenko, moved into Apartment 141, which had become vacant after the arrest of its previous tenant, a deputy commissar from the Health Ministry.
He is an obscure fifty-six-year-old apparatchik named Cai Bin, a senior urban-management official and political commissar from the southern province of Guangdong who was sacked this week after investigators found that he had somehow acquired twenty-two homes, worth an estimated six million dollars.
We are being lectured on "democracy" by unelected commissars from the E.U.
He left his mark on the sensibilities of the cultural commissars from the moment of his literary debut in 1956, when, on the strength of one article published in a new magazine, Kveten, he was invited to take part in a conference held to introduce – and keep an eye on – young authors at the Writers' Union's grand country quarters in the baroque palace of Dobris.
As People's Commissar for External and Internal Trade from 1926, he imported ideas from the West, such as the manufacture of canned goods.
Molotov served as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (Premier) from 1930 to 1941, and as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949 and from 1953 to 1956.
In May he headed for the USA, having obtained official permission to do so from Anatoly Lunacharsky, the People's Commissar for Education, who told him: "You are a revolutionary in music, we are revolutionaries in life.
As early as April 1918, some Romanian volunteer groups joined up with the Bolshevik Red Army, taking their orders from Commissar Béla Kun, but some of their members continued to serve the nationalist cause.
Returning to Moscow, Borodin served as deputy people's commissar for labour, deputy director of Tass news agency, and, from 1932, editor of the Moscow Daily News, published in English.
Leonid Krasin initially quit politics after the split from Lenin in 1909, but rejoined the Bolsheviks after the 1917 Revolution and served as the Soviet trade representative in London and as People's Commissar for Foreign Trade until his death in 1926.
Such was my oddly grueling job as a card-carrying cultural commissar of the state from 2007 through 2009, when I completed my stint.
