Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union instance of government agency
History
The creation of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union as the executive body of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union was provided for by the Treaty on the Creation of the Soviet Union. For the first time the abbreviation "Sovnarkom" was used in this treaty.
The prototype of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union was the Council of People's Commissars of Soviet Russia – the first in the history of the Soviet state a panel of chairmen of commissions entrusted with "managing certain branches of state life". Formed by the decrees of the 2nd All-Russian Congress of Soviets and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on November 9, 1917, five years before the formation of the Soviet Union, the Council of People's Commissars chaired by Vladimir Lenin was the government of the Russian Soviet Republic (since 1918 – the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic). After the formation of the Soviet Union, the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic coordinated the activities of the Soviet republics that became part of the Soviet Union, actually becoming the first government of the Soviet Union between the signing of the Treaty on the Creation of the Soviet Union on December 29, 1922 and the formation of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union on July 6, 1923.
The first composition of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union was approved at the 2nd session of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union on July 6, 1923:Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union;
Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union;
The people's commissars of the Soviet Union – the leaders of the people's commissariats of the Soviet Union;
Chairman of the State Planning Commission of the Soviet Union (since 1936);
Chairman of the Soviet Control Commission (since 1936);
Chairman of the Procurement Committee (since 1936);
Chairman of the Committee on Arts (since 1936);
Chairman of the Committee for Higher Education (since 1936).The Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union also included, with an advisory vote, representatives of the republics of the Soviet Union, members of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union, chairman of the Joint State Political Directorate and manager of the Central Statistical Directorate. In addition, chairmen of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Union Republics and, by special resolution of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union, other persons were allowed to participate in meetings of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union.Throughout the activities of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, the number and names of government bodies changed several times due to the creation of new institutions and the separation, merger and abolition of previously created ones. The composition of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union was changed accordingly.
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