Preposition: of

• war: As commissar of war led the Red Army to defeat the Entente in their invasion of Soviet Russia.

• army: The chief political commissar of the 60th Army reported 17,000 liberated prisoners; he saw " endless human masses " of released prisoners.

• government: He is appointed the Commissar of the American Government in the Baltic Provinces of Russia.

Converse of object

• become: Wolff now assumed command of the battalion and John Gates became battalion commissar.

• include: He asked to call witnesses, including those Bolshevik commissars who were supposed to be keeping an eye on him.

• attach: There is a GPU commissar attached to each unit, and the commanding officer has to bow to him.

• appoint: He is appointed the Commissar of the American Government in the Baltic Provinces of Russia.

• have: Each battalion had a political commissar, and the companies had, as we have said, political delegates.

• capture: He contends, however, that no captured Commissars were shot by troops under his command.

Preposition: for

• nationality: After the October Revolution Stalin was elected to the post of commissar for nationalities.

Adjective modifier

• Soviet: A plan to eliminate Soviet commissars was in the directive for " Case Barbarossa " .

• political: Good teachers object to being turned into political commissars.

• Russian: I believe that my age and appearance could well appear that I was a Russian commissar or something.

• first: Stalin -- ironically the Bolshevik's first commissar of nationalities -- was more guilty than most of reviving old tsarist ways.

• deputy: He was appointed ambassador to the U.S. , 1941-43, and deputy commissar of foreign affairs, 1943-46.

Noun used with modifier

• area: These offices are to forward the forms handed in to the area Commissars.

• Bolshevik: He asked to call witnesses, including those Bolshevik commissars who were supposed to be keeping an eye on him.