Definition of «commissar»

A commissar is a term used to describe an official appointed by a government or other authority to oversee and administer a particular area, organization or group. The word comes from the Russian language where it was originally used to refer to members of the Bolshevik party who were assigned to lead and direct military units during the Russian Revolution in 1917. In this context, commissar refers specifically to someone appointed by the government to supervise or administer a particular area or organization.

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The political commissar was responsible for indoctrinating soldiers with communist ideology in the army.
The ruthless commissar purged dissidents from the party, ensuring absolute loyalty to the regime.
During the Soviet era, a commissar oversaw economic planning and resource allocation in various industries.
The commissar played a pivotal role in maintaining discipline and order within gulags and prison camps.
In the novel, the commissar was depicted as a symbol of authority and unyielding adherence to party doctrine.

Sentences with «commissar»

The first was General Tian Xiusi, a former political commissar of the People's Liberation Army Air Force and a member of the party's elite Central Committee. (businessinsider.com)
He met Armando Guebuza, the national political commissar of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) and the man who would become president of that African nation. (educationnext.org)
As it happens, the same hostility can actually be ascribed to all the plastic arts, as Alain Besançon demonstrates in his remarkable history of iconoclasm, a history he traces from Moses and the pre «Socratic philosophers down to the Soviet commissars of art. (firstthings.com)
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Definition of «commissar»

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