Editing Commissar (section)

==History==
In the 18th and 19th centuries in the Russian army ''kommissars'', then ''krigs-komissars'' (from {{langx|de|Krieg}} 'war') were officials in charge of supply for the armed forces (see Rus. [[:ru:Генерал-кригскомиссар|Генерал-кригскомиссар]]).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Полное собрание законов Российской империи: поиск |url=http://nlr.ru/e-res/law_r/search.php?part=15&regim=3 |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=nlr.ru}}</ref>

[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-121-0011-20, Polen, deutsch-sowjetische Siegesparade.jpg|thumb|right|Russian [[political commissar]] in leather coat at the [[German-Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk]] on September 22, 1939.]]

Commissaries were used during the [[Russian Provisional Government|Provisional Government]] (March–July 1917) for regional heads of administration, but the term commissar is associated with a number of [[Cheka]] and military functions in [[Bolshevik]] and Soviet government military forces during the [[Russian Civil War]] (the [[White Army]] widely used the collective term "bolsheviks and commissars" for their opponents) and with the later terms ''People's Commissar'' (or ''[[narkom]]'') for government ministers and ''[[political commissar]]'' in the military.