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 organisation functioning from 1917 to 1924 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.

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