NKVD bodies in the mechanism of food distribution in 1918-1921
The problem of the importance of the system of bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire - the NKVD of Soviet Russia in the implementation of food policy is raised. It is emphasized that this direction was initially under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The increased importance of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs in the food sector is revealed, first of all, in the implementation of food distribution. The forms of implementation of the above policy by the People’s Commissariat of Agriculture, its interaction with the People’s Commissariat of Food are highlighted. The importance of the presented topic in the year of the centenary of the cessation of the policy of war communism is noted.