People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the RSFSR

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The People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the RSFSR was the Soviet Russian government post overseeing internal security, law enforcement, and political policing before these functions were fully centralized at the all-Union level.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf government office
ministerial post
appliesToJurisdiction RSFSR
associatedWith Cheka
NKVD
GPU
surface form: OGPU
basedIn Moscow
controlledBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
surface form: Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
country Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Russian SFSR
surface form: Soviet Russia
governmentalFunction internal affairs
security and policing
governmentBranch executive branch of the RSFSR
hasAuthorityOver local internal affairs departments of the RSFSR
regional NKVD directorates of the RSFSR
hasPart NKVD
surface form: RSFSR NKVD
historicalPeriod early Soviet era
languageOfWork Russian
officeHeldBy Felix Dzerzhinsky
Genrikh Yagoda
Georgy Oppokov NERFINISHED
Grigory Petrovsky NERFINISHED
Lavrentiy Beria
Nikolai Yezhov
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko NERFINISHED
officeType people's commissariat
oversees administrative policing in the RSFSR
internal security in the RSFSR
law enforcement in the RSFSR
militia of the RSFSR
political policing in the RSFSR
prison system of the RSFSR
state security organs in the RSFSR
partOf Council of People's Commissars
surface form: Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR

Soviet system of people's commissariats
Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR
surface form: government of the RSFSR
politicalSystem one-party socialist state
precededBy Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire
surface form: Tsarist Ministry of Internal Affairs (in function)
replacedBy People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSR
NKVD
surface form: all-Union NKVD
replaces Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Provisional Government
responsibleFor implementation of Soviet internal policy in the RSFSR
maintenance of public order in the RSFSR
suppression of counterrevolution in the RSFSR
subordinateTo Council of People's Commissars
surface form: Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR

Soviet government
usedTitle Narodny komissar vnutrennikh del RSFSR

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Nikolai Yezhov positionHeld People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the RSFSR
Alexei Rykov positionHeld People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the RSFSR
this entity surface form: People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs of the Russian SFSR
Iron Felix positionHeld People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the RSFSR
subject surface form: Felix Dzerzhinsky