0 (in the Soviet Union until 1946) the official title of the head of a government department, or an official responsible for political education, especially in a military group
He has been, in turn, capitalist, civil servant, and commissar.
Let us make no bones about the fact that we would be right back with the commissar.
Now, they can run to the commissar to try to bring the unions into disrepute.
Words such as "central fund" are the sort of words which fall readily from the lips of commissars.
We would have rule by party caucus—we are already beginning to get a taste of that—and, of course, their commissar leaders.
He wants these commissars to boss, direct, and interfere with those great gas undertakings, municipal and private.
We are getting, for want of a better term, a commissar-type of bureaucracy.
Ratsimandrava wished to create units of basic development that would be somewhat like rural soviets, but lacking commissars to oversee their activities.
