From 1920-22 and 1923-27 respectively, the Council of Labor and Defense of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR and the Council of Labor and Defense of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union were agencies responsible for the management of the economies

Economy of the Soviet Union

The economy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was based on a system of state ownership of the means of production, collective farming, industrial manufacturing and centralized administrative planning...

 and defense structures on the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

. It was created as a commission of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) from the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defense (existed from 1918-20), which was the supreme body for economic management during the Russian Civil War

Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed to the Soviets, under the domination of the Bolshevik party. Soviet forces first assumed power in Petrograd The Russian Civil War (1917–1923) was a...

. Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...

 was the inaugaral Chairman of the Council.

On August 21, 1923 soon after the Soviet Union was created the USSR State Planning Committee (Gosplan), tasked with the creation of five-year plans, was established as a commission of the Council of Labor and Defense.

Composition

• Chairman — The Chairman of the Council of Labour and Defence was also the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (Premier of the Soviet Union
  Premier of the Soviet Union
  The office of Premier of the Soviet Union was synonymous with head of government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . Twelve individuals have been premier...
  
  )

• Deputies of the Chairman — The deputies of the Council Chairman were appointed by the Sovnarkom

• People's Commissars — After 1923 the Council consisted of the People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs, VSNKh, Labour, Transport, Agriculture, Foodstuffs, Rabkrin
  Rabkrin
  Rabkrin, RKI or Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate was a governmental establishment in Soviet Russia and the early Soviet Union responsible for scrutinizing the state, local and enterprise administrations during 1920-1934. It was established on February 7, 1920 to replace the People's...
  
  , Finance, Foreign Trade

• Representatives of trade unions in the Soviet Union
  Trade unions in the Soviet Union
  Trade unions in the Soviet Union trace their history back to Russian Revolution of 1905. Many trade unions were shut down or restricted on the eve of World War I and during the War, but they revived after the February Revolution and their leaders were democratically elected during 1917.Anarchists...
  
  

• Chairman of the Central Statistical Office

See also

• USSR State Defense Committee
  USSR State Defense Committee
  The State Defense Committee was an extraordinary organ of state power in the USSR during the German-Soviet War which held complete state power in the country.-General scope:...
  
  , a similar extraordinary organ during the Great Patriotic War