Tukhachevsky served as chief of staff of the Red Army (1925–1928) and as Deputy Commissar for Defence.

That stuff, getting warmer as it went along, contained dozens of details that nobody lower than a Deputy Commissar had any right to know about-provided they were true.

The most tantalizing topic discussed in this section of the book is the conduct of Maxim Litvinov, Deputy Commissar for Foreign Relations.

In 1922 Krylenko became Deputy Commissar of Justice and assistant Prosecutor General of the RSFSR.

He could not hide the body of a Deputy Commissar in his own office in the Hungarian capital.

Bullets ripped into the already dead body of the CYPHER Group Leader and Deputy Commissar.

Solomon Bregman (1895-1953), Deputy Commissar of Foreign Affairs.

In 1944 he was appointed Deputy Commissar for Defence, under Stalin, and served as Stalin's principal agent in the High Command of the Red Army.

Afterwards, Meretskov was promoted to rank of army general and made Deputy Commissar of Defense.

With the support of a majority of the Politburo, a political show trial was arranged which was to be prosecuted by Deputy Commissar of Justice Nikolai Krylenko.