People's Commissariat for Nationalities

The People's Commissariat of Nationalities of the RSFSR (Russian: Народный комиссариат по делам национальностей РСФСР, Narodny komissariat po delam natsional'nostey RSFSR), abbreviated NKNats (Russian: НКНац) or Narkomnats (Russian: Наркомнац), an organization functioning from 1917 to 1924^[1] in the early Soviet period of Russian and Soviet history, tasked with dealing with non-Russian nationalities. Its head, Joseph Stalin, as the People's Commissar of Nationalities (1917–23), served as a member of the Council of People's Commissars.

^ Hirsch, Francine (8 August 2007). "State and Evolution: Ethnographic Knowledge, Economic Expediency, and the Making of the USSR, 1917–1924". In Burbank, Jane; von Hagen, Mark; Remnev, Anatolyi (eds.). Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700–1930. Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies. Indiana University Press (published 2007). p. 161. ISBN 9780253219114. Retrieved 2015-07-23. The new Soviet constitution of 1924 dissolved Narkomnats [...].

[1] Hirsch, Francine (8 August 2007). "State and Evolution: Ethnographic Knowledge, Economic Expediency, and the Making of the USSR, 1917–1924". In Burbank, Jane; von Hagen, Mark; Remnev, Anatolyi (eds.). Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700–1930. Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies. Indiana University Press (published 2007). p. 161. ISBN 9780253219114. Retrieved 2015-07-23. The new Soviet constitution of 1924 dissolved Narkomnats [...].

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