The Sovnarkom was dissolved and transformed into the Council of Ministers in 1946.[1]
Original People's Commissars
The first council elected by the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets in late 1917 was composed as follows. Many early commisars later opposed the party majority organized by Stalin and allegedly conspired with the Trotskyist opposition[2] or some other opposition group, which resulted in their expulsion from the party or being arrested. The party had banned factional opposition groups at the Eleventh Party Congress during 1921.[3] Still, the original council included Left-Communists, Trotskyists and other ex-oppositionists. Most alleged conspirators were executed for treason during the Great Purge, while some had sentences reduced to imprisonment.[4]
All-Union Sovnarkom
Upon the creation of the USSR in 1922, the Soviet Union's government was modelled after the first Sovnarkom. The Soviet republics retained their own governments which dealt with domestic matters.
^ a b"О преобразовании Совета Народных Комиссаров СССР в Совет Министров СССР и Советов Народных Комиссаров Союзных и Автономных республик в Советы Министров Союзных и Автономных республик" 15 марта 1946 года [On Reforming the Council of People's Commissars into the Council of Ministers, and the Councils of People's Commissars of Union and Autonomous Republics into the Councils of Ministers of Union and Autonomous Republics, 15 March 1946]. Legislation of the USSR 1946–1952 (in Russian). World and Market Economy – Collection of Articles on Economy, Igor Averin. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
^Pierre Broué, The "Bloc" of the Oppositions against Stalin
^Lenin, Vladimir. "Eleventh Congress Of The R.C.P.(B.) March 27–April 2, 1922". www.marxists.org.
^Getty, Origins of the great purges
^Huskey, Eugene (1992). Executive power and Soviet politics: the rise and decline of the Soviet state. M.E. Sharpe. p. 281. ISBN 978-1-56324-059-1.
^Law, David A. (1975). Russian civilization. Ardent Media. p. 185. ISBN 978-0-8422-0529-0.
External links
Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1917–1964 and 1964–1991
Lenin as Head of Government, an English-language Soviet book on Lenin's activities as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars