“Successful field officers of the Finnish war were brought to the defence commissariat.”
“After Trotsky's departure from the war commissariat in 1925, the army was reduced to under 600,000 men, with a strong cavalry element.”
“The rising euro and the refusal of the EU commissariat to reflate the EU economy implies that the exporting side of the Irish economy will be squeezed.”
commissar
An official of the Communist Party, often attached to a military unit, who was responsible for political education.
“He has made good use of other archival materials as well, including the papers of the commissariats of justice and health.”
“The direct selection of volunteers for The Reserves may be entrusted to preliminary selection centers, which should be organic divisions of military commissariats.”
“With party members dominating administrative bodies, which included the people's commissariats at the top, those bodies functioned as executors of party policy.”