Sentence examples for served as commissar from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

Later, when war broke out he served as a political commissar in the Hungarian Red Army (in this position, he also ordered the execution of several soldiers, see Kadarkay 1991: 223).

In 1935 and 1936, Brezhnev served his compulsory military service, and after taking courses at a tank school, he served as a political commissar in a tank factory.

In January 1919 Khrushchev joined the Red Army and served as a junior political commissar, ultimately in the campaigns against the Whites and invading Polish armies in 1920.

During World War I, Gumilyov fought at the front as a volunteer and in 1917 served as the Provisional Government's special commissar in Paris after the first Russian Revolution that year.