Lietuvos ir Baltarusijos TSR darbo liaudies komisariatas

  • Labour People Commissariat in Lithuania and Byelorussia Soviet Socialist Republics
  • Совет народных коммиссаров
  • Soviet narodnykh kommissarov
Identifier
004221
Dates
1918-1919
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

History

The Council of People's Commissars (Russian: Совет народных коммиссаров or Совнарком, translit. Soviet narodnykh kommissarov or Sovnarkom, also as generic SNK) was a government institution formed shortly after the October Revolution in 1917. Created in the Russian Republic the council laid foundations in restructuring the country to form the Soviet Union. It evolved to become the highest government authority of executive power under the Soviet system in states which came under the control of Bolsheviks.

Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0

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