Ministries of the Soviet Union

The Ministries of the Soviet Union (Russian: Министерства СССР) were the government ministries of the Soviet Union.

After the Russian Revolution of 1917 the previous bureaucratic apparatus of bourgeois ministers was replaced by People's Commissariats (Russian: народных комиссариатов; Narkom), staffed by new employees drawn from workers and peasants. On 15 March 1946 the people’s commissariats were transformed into ministries. The name change had no practical effects, other than restoring a designation previously considered a leftover of the bourgeois era. The collapse of the ministry system was one of the main causes behind the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

State Committees were also subordinated to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union and had similar powers and rights.

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