Sentence examples for the first commissar from inspiring English sources

If Obama is elected and Krugman receives a high position in his administration, we shall see if Krugman becomes the first commissar who makes socialism work.

The first Commissar was Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov appointed in 1917.

Lenin and A.V. Lunacharsky, first commissar of education in the Soviet Union, and in 1922 the Art Theatre toured Europe and the United States, garnering critical acclaim wherever it performed.

She also tells the remarkable story of the most influential figure in the Soviet cooking landscape: Anastas Mikoyan, a high-ranking Politburo member who became the first "people's commissar" for food.

Nikolai Krylenko, the first People's Commissar of Justice, said in January 1933 that Soviet law waxed indignant about the leniency of some Soviet officials who objected to the infamous "five ears law": We are sometimes up against a flat refusal to apply this law rigidly.

The first People's Commissar for Public Health, Nikolai Semashko, who gave his name to the Soviet health care system, created an extensive public health infrastructure, based on a network of sanitary-epidemiological (san-epid) stations, owned by the Ministry of Health, and charged with surveillance and control of threats to health.

The first are the commissars of the national security establishment, who perpetuate these "Washington rules" of global dominance.

Having helped organize the development of Soviet industry during the First Five-Year Plan (1928 32), Ordzhonikidze became commissar for heavy industry in 1932.

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.

Nevertheless, Rykov participated in the October Revolution and became commissar of the interior in the first Bolshevik government.

The Korean war saw the first major attempts at what became known as brainwashing, where interrogators and political commissars sought to "turn" Americans against their own government.