Commissars

special military rank in some countries responsible for ideological education and ensuring political control of the military

Russian writer, editor (1895–1926)

Bolshevik and Left SR members of the 1918 Baku Commune

military official

Hero of the Soviet Union (1921-1944)

Crimean Tatar communist secretary and partisan leader

Commissar (or sometimes Kommissar) is an English transliteration of the Russian (komissar), which means 'commissary'. In English, the transliteration commissar often refers specifically to the political commissars of Soviet and Eastern-bloc armies or to the people's commissars (effectively government ministers), while administrative officers are called commissaries.

Romanian politician