The Council of People's Commissars, commonly known as the Sovnarkom, were the highest executive authorities of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Soviet Union, and the Soviet republ
The Council of People's Commissars in 1919. Title reads "Top Authority of the Russian Soviet Republic"
The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was the executive and administrative organ of the highest body of state authority, the All-Union Supreme Soviet. It was formed on 30 December
A governmental badge from 1930.
The composition of Stalin's Second Government as shown in 1946.
Alexei Kosygin was the longest-serving chairman of the Soviet government, holding office from 1964 until his death in 1980.
Gorbachev at the 1st Plenary Session of the I Congress of People's Deputies in 1989.