The governmental
power is vested in a _collegium_ made up of the chairmen of these
commissions, that is to say, the Council of People's Commissars.
Control over the activities of the People's Commissars, and the
right to replace them, shall belong to the All-Russian Congress of
Soviets of Workers', Peasants' and Soldiers' Deputies, and its
Central Executive Committee.
Still silence; as he read the list of Commissars, bursts of applause
after each name, Lenin's and Trotzky's especially.
_President of the Council:_ Vladimir Ulianov _(Lenin)_
_Interior:_ A. E. Rykov
_Agriculture:_ V. P. Miliutin
_Labour:_ A. G. Shliapnikov
_Military and Naval Affairs_-a committee composed of V. A.
_Avseenko (Antonov),_ N. V. Krylenko, and F. M. Dybenko.
_Commerce and Industry:_ V. P. Nogin
_Popular Education:_ A. V. Lunatcharsky
_Finance:_ E. E. Skvortsov _(Stepanov)_
_Foreign Affairs:_ L. D. Bronstein _(Trotzky)_
_Justice:_ G. E. Oppokov _(Lomov)_
_Supplies:_ E. A. Teodorovitch
_Post and Telegraph:_ N. P. Avilov _(Gliebov)_
_Chairman for Nationalities:_ I. V. Djougashvili _(Stalin)_
_Railroads:_ To be filled later.
There were bayonets at the edges of the room, bayonets pricking up
among the delegates; the Military Revolutionary Committee was arming
everybody, Bolshevism was arming for the decisive battle with
Kerensky, the sound of whose trumpets came up the south-west wind.
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