People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the RSFSR

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defence ministry government office

The People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the RSFSR was the early Soviet government post responsible for directing the Red Army and Navy during and after the Russian Civil War.

Aliases (1)

People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs ×1

Statements (41)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	defence ministry → government office →
alsoKnownAs	Narkomvoenmor RSFSR → People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs of the RSFSR →
appliesToJurisdiction	RSFSR →
appliesToPeriod	Russian Civil War → early Soviet period →
country	Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic →
dissolved	1923 →
fieldOfWork	defence → military policy → naval policy →
hasCapital	Moscow →
hasDuties	direction of the Red Army → direction of the Red Navy → military administration of the RSFSR → naval administration of the RSFSR →
hasPart	Naval Staff of the RSFSR → Red Army General Staff →
history	created after the October Revolution to replace tsarist and provisional government war ministries → superseded by all-Union defence commissariats after formation of the USSR →
inception	1918 →
jurisdiction	armed forces of the RSFSR →
languageOfWorkOrName	Russian →
location	Moscow →
officeholder	Leon Trotsky → Mikhail Frunze → Nikolai Podvoisky → Sergey Kamenev →
partOf	Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR → Soviet government →
precededBy	Imperial Russian Ministry of War → War Ministry of the Russian Provisional Government →
replacedBy	People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs of the USSR → People's Commissariat of Defence of the USSR →
significantEvent	creation of unified military and naval command of the RSFSR → reorganization of the Red Army command structure →
subordinateTo	All-Russian Central Executive Committee → Council of People's Commissars →
usedBy	Red Army → Red Navy →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Council of People's Commissars ("People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs") →	hasPart
Leon Trotsky →	positionHeld