Narkomprod

Narkomprod or the People's Commissariat for Food Supplies, (translit. Narodny Commissariat Prodovolstviya, Russian: Наркомпрод, Народный комиссариат продовольствия) was the Commissariat of the Russian SFSR (Narkomprod of the RSFSR [ru]) and later of the Soviet Union (Narkomprod of the USSR [ru]) in charge of food supplies and consumer industrial goods.^[1]

The Narkomprod was responsible in June 1918 for the attempted organisation of 'committees of the poor' in provincial villages. This was an attempt to encourage a 'class war' in the countryside but it did not materialise, mainly because the peasants were not resentful of 'kulaks' (rich peasants) as there was a tendency for all peasants to have the same interests (for example, their own land ownership).

People's Commissars

• Ivan Teodorovich (1875–1937) (Russian Иван Адольфович Теодорович), 1917-1917^{[citation needed]}
• Alexander Schlichter (1868–1940) (Russian Александр Григорьевич Шлихтер), 1917–1918^{[citation needed]}
• Alexander Zjurupa (1870–1928) (Russian Александр Дмитриевич Цюрупа), 1918–1921^{[citation needed]}
• Nikolai Bryukhanov (1878–1938) (Russian Николай Павлович Брюханов), 1921–1923 (of RSFSR) 1923-1924 (of the USSR)

References

1. Patenaude, Bertrand M. (1995). "Peasants into Russians: The Utopian Essence of War Communism". The Russian Review. 54 (4): 552–570. doi:10.2307/131609. ISSN 0036-0341 – via JSTOR.