Council of Labour and Defence

The Council of Labour and Defence of the Council of People's Commissars (STO) of the RSFSR (1920-1922) / USSR (1923-1937) (Совет труда и обороны при Совете Народных Комиссаров РСФСР / СССР, СТО) was an agency for the management of economy and defense in Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union. The first STO RSFSR was headed by Vladimir Lenin and created as a commission of the Sovnarkom from the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defence (Совет рабочей и крестьянской обороны, 1918-1920). The latter Council was the supreme extraordinary body for economical management during the Russian Civil War.

Composition

• Chairman (Chairman of Sovnarkom)
• Deputies of the Chairman (appointed by Sovnarkom)
• People's Commissars: (as of 1923) Military, VSNKh, Labour, Transport, Agriculture, Foodstuffs, Rabkrin, Finance, Foreign Trade (по Военным Делам, В.С.Н.Х., Наркомтруда, Путей Сообщения, Земледелия, Продовольствия, Рабкрин, Наркомфин, Внешторг)
• Representative of VTsSPS
• Chairman of the Central Statistical Office (advisory vote)

See also

• USSR State Defense Committee, a similar extraordinary organ during the Great Patriotic War