He joined the army as a political commissar, served with the Polish mission investigating Nazi war crimes, operated as a military intelligence spy against the British and rose through various diplomatic postings - in England, Argentina, India and the United States, where he was Ambassador in two different periods.
Maxim Litvinov became a Soviet diplomat, serving as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs (1930 1939).
In 1995, Mr. Bennett, serving as America's self-appointed cultural commissar, made a target of Tupac, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and other practitioners of gangsta rap.
He joined the Bolsheviks and served as commissar of the Volga German autonomous workers' commune in 1918.
After the overthrow of the short-lived Hungarian communist regime of Kun Béla in 1919, in which Lukács served as commissar for culture and education, he moved to Vienna, where he remained for 10 years.
He served as commissar for Socialist production in the short-lived Communist regime of Béla Kun (1919) but, with the triumph of counterrevolution in Hungary, was forced to flee to Moscow.
After a rapid ascent as one of the leading thinkers of the party, Lukács became more involved in day-to-day politics: after the revolution in 1919, he first served as a deputy commissar and then as commissar of public education in Béla Kun's government.
From 1937 to 1945 he served as the commissar (political officer) of a division of the communists' Eighth Route Army, at which time he was appointed a secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
During the Long March of 1934-35 Deng attended the meeting where Mao took supreme power, and after the Communist triumph in 1949, he served as party commissar for the army that occupied Tibet, although he seems not to have set foot there.
During World War II Brezhnev served as a political commissar in the Red Army, advancing in rank until he became a major general (1943) and head of the political commissars on the Ukrainian front.
