Word: commissariat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recognition of his services his body was encased in a red coffin and taken to the Foreign Commissariat, where it lay in state, despite the fact that M. Joffe, close and good friend of Lev (Leon) Davidovitch Trotsky, was a member of the opposition group...
...younger rank and file of the Communist Party. Old-timers like Josef Stalin and Gregory Zinoviev, remembering that Trotzky joined the party only in 1917, began to attack him as a "upstart," and after Lenin's death it was not long before he was ousted from the Commissariat of War and reduced to political impotence by his powerful enemies. Even the Communist Party disavowed him, and, not actually expelling him from the Party, demoted him from the high office he held...
When she allegedly divorced him in 1923: "My friends tell me that Sergei has been in jail for anti-Jewish utterances, but even in jail he contrived to remain permanently drunk. ... I experienced the greatest difficulty in trying to get a divorce, because the Soviet Divorce Commissariat closed every day at noon. ... It was impossible to get Sergei to arise and accompany me at such an hour. ... If the Commissariat had been open at midnight, he would have gone willingly...
When the scheme was first outlined, the artists directly obtained the permission of the Russian Commissariat of Education on the understanding that the Russian Red Cross was to receive 10% of the profits. Thereupon, the artists set out from Moscow, accompanied by Alexander I. Bukhareff, of the Commissariat of Education. But the American Consul at Riga refused to visé the passport of the last named gentleman, so the artists, with 900 pictures, continued unchaperoned...
...report dated April 16, 1923, addressed by the high commissioner of the French Republic in the Rhine provinces, Paul Tirard to the Secretariat General, Paris, reviewed the relations of the French authorities in occupied Germany with Dr. Dorten. This report contains the following sentences: "the French high commissariat did everything it could do without bringing itself to grief to preserve for Dr. Dorten the possibility of action. . . . Thanks to this support, I often was able to get his adherents together, maintain their enthusiasm, increase his propaganda and establish journals...