Council of the People's Commissars
- Council of the People's Commissars
The Council of the People's Commissars, or the Council of People's Commissars, was the highest government authority under the Bolshevik system after the success of the Russian Revolution. An uprising had occurred on November 7, 1917, and the next day, November 8, 1917, the new government was formally established. It was Leon Trotsky who devised the "council" name, thereby avoiding the more "bourgeois" terms, "minister" and "cabinet". The new government reflected the capture of the soviets by the Bolsheviks. Lenin became its chairman, a counterpart of a premier, the latter considered a "bourgeois" expression.
ee also
*Bolshevik
*Government of the Soviet Union
*Kamenev
**Lev Kamenev
*October Revolution
*Russian Revolution (1917)
*Soviet
External links
* [http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/forrel/1918rv1/bl04.htm The Consul General at Moscow (Summers) to the Secretary of State]
* [http://heninen.net/sopimus/1917f_e.htm The decree of the Council of the People's Commissars on the ...]
* [http://www.geocities.com/rayendi/conditions_in_Russia.html Conditions in Russia, by William H. King, senator]
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