Council of People's Commissars on War and Navy Affairs (Soviet Russia)

Council of People's Commissars on War and Navy Affairs

Совет Народных Комиссаров по Военным и Морским Делам
All ministry seals of the RSFSR used the RSFSR coat of arms
Agency overview
Formed	8 November 1917
Superseding agency	Revolutionary War Council (Revvoyensoviet)
Jurisdiction	Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Headquarters	Petrograd, (later in Moscow), RSFSR

Council of People's Commissars on War and Navy Affairs (Russian: Совет Народных Комиссаров по Военным и Морским Делам, Soviet Narodnykh Kommissarov po voyenym i morskim dyelam) was the very first military government agency of the Soviet Russia initially named as the Committee on affairs of War and Navy. The council was created on November 8, 1917 (day after the October Revolution) on the decree of the 2nd All-Russian Congress of Soviets "On creation of the Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government" which was the name of the Russian Sovnarkom.

The Kornilov Affair sanctioned by Alexander Kerensky which resulted in detention of the Russian Supreme Commander-in-Chief Lavr Kornilov and the Bolshevisation of Soviets also played a major role in establishing of the Soviet military presence. The council gradually overtook the authority of the Ministry of War of the Russian Republic completely changing the defense policy of Russia.