Noun
an official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach party principles to a military unit
Source: WordNetA case could be made for Mr. Ellis as a covert moralist and closet sentimentalist, the best kind, the kind who leaves you space in which to respond as your predispositions nudge you, whether as a commissar or hand-wringer or, like me, as an admirer of his intelligence and craft. Bret Easton Ellis
This leads to the conclusion, it is time to finish retreating. Not one step back! Such should now be our main slogan. ... Henceforth the solid law of discipline for each commander, Red Army soldier, and commissar should be the requirement - not a single step back without order from higher command. Joseph Stalin
During what was known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War ( Eastern Front of World War II ), Khrushchev was again a commissar, serving as an intermediary between Stalin and his generals. Source: Internet
As the people's commissar to the high command of the southern front, Stalin was determined to take the then Polish city of Lwów (now Lviv in Ukraine). Source: Internet
Denton, C.S., Absolute Power, p.588 Standing about six feet from the gunmen and facing them, Alexandra watched the murder of her husband and two menservants before military commissar Peter Ermakov took aim at her. Source: Internet
Bloch, pp. 247–249 Ribbentrop had only expected to see the Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov and was most surprised to be holding talks with Joseph Stalin himself. Source: Internet