Crossword clues for commissar
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1918, from Russian komissar, from German Kommissar "commissioner," from French, ultimately from Medieval Latin commissarius (see commissary).
Wiktionary
n. 1 An official of the Communist Party, often attached to a military unit, who was responsible for political education. 2 In the Soviet Union, the head of a commissariat.
WordNet
n. an official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach party principles to a military unit [syn: political commissar]
Wikipedia
Commissar (sometimes Kommissar) is an English transliteration of the Russian , which means commissary. In English, the transliteration "commissar" is used to refer specifically to Communist political officers, while administrative officers are translated to " commissary". In English, "Commissar" also refers to similar Communist officers in other countries, for example during the Spanish Civil War.
The same word комисса́р is used in Russian for both political and administrative officials. The title has been used in the Soviet Union and Russia from the time of Peter the Great.
Commissar (, translit. Komissar) is a 1967 Soviet film based on one of Vasily Grossman's first short stories, "In the Town of Berdichev" (В городе Бердичеве). The main characters were played by two People's Artists of the USSR, Rolan Bykov and Nonna Mordyukova. Made at Gorky Film Studio.
Maxim Gorky considered this brief story one of the best about the Russian Civil War and encouraged the young writer to dedicate himself to literature. It also drew favorable attention from Mikhail Bulgakov, Boris Pilnyak, and Isaac Babel.
Usage examples of "commissar".
The Colonel Commissar watched Lieutenant Chuang Tzu smile at her order and pretended not to notice.
Her navigator, who despite his Chuang Tzu nickname was less of a dreamer than the Colonel Commissar imagined, was of the firm opinion that they were dead.
Ignoring the officer in charge of the airstrip, the foreign commissar stumped off into the darkness.
Lunacharsky became the evocatively titled Commissar of Enlightenment, while Bogdanov assumed the leadership of the Proletkult movement.
Her sons, wherever they were with the Red Army, might also have attracted the attention of the political commissars assigned to the military.
The Istikhbarat was originally responsible for the political commissars attached to army units down to battalion level and air force units down to squadron level, although it is unclear if it still has this mission.
Military Security appears to have taken over control of the political commissars, themselves reinstituted after the Gulf War, with SSO officers added to the headquarters staffs for good measure.
The stately country homes were taken over, one by one, by Saudi and Kuwaiti royalty, or by the sterner commissars of Democratic Yemen and the nouveau riche mullahs of post-Khomeini Iran.
Former station security chief Colin Driver, hitherto regarded as a totally reliable Communist FSB commissar, has spearheaded the move.
However, he also heard the commissar and his partner following Wayne out the door.
Ishihara kept his head straight as he drove past the front door of the converted factory, still pretending to have no concern over the commissar and his partner.
Remember the Twenty-six Commissars of Baku, I thought grimly, as my virtual leather jacket and trousers -- Bolshevik chic -- creaked around me.
Instead he held to one unwavering conviction: ``A messenger will run in and tell the commissars, `They even knocked out the bridges at Toko-ri.
Inside every factory, labour battalion, and army unit was the political commissar, the party member, political intelligence, and the informer to apply unrelenting pressure and fear tactics.
Since that was nothing but the truth, the foreign commissar couldn't very well disagree with it.