ABSTRACT
In the year 1918 and in the early part of 1919 the president of the Presidium of the High Soviet of the People's Economy was A. I. Rykov, and among the members were G. I. Oppokov, L. Karpov, I. Chubar, J. Weinberg, and L. B. Krassin, with one or two others who rarely attended. A phase of futile activities of the All-Russian Soviet of People's Economy was frequent creation of new departments. The relations between the All-Russian Soviet of People's Economy and the commissariats and departments under the commissars were very ambiguous. The commissariats or administrative departments with which the All-Russian Soviet of People's Economy was most continuously interfering were those of trade and industry, labour, agriculture, food, and transport those, in fact, which were directly concerned with economic life. There seemed to be a tendency to regard the Soviet system as represented by All-Russian Soviet of People's Economy as an ideal organization for the establishment of a communist order.
