The Ministry of State Control (Mingoskon; ) was a

government ministry Ministry or department (also less commonly used secretariat, office, or directorate) are designations used by first-level Executive (government), executive bodies in the Machinery of government, machinery of governments that manage a specific se ...

in the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

. The Ministry of State Control exercised strict state control over the accounting and expenditures of government funds and materials in the hands of state, cooperative, and social organizations, institutions, and enterprises. Furthermore, it checked on the execution of government decrees and regulations.

History

November 1917 - Decree authorized workers' control in all enterprises and organizations hiring labor or giving out work. January 1918 - the

Council of People's Commissars The Council of People's Commissars (CPC) (), commonly known as the ''Sovnarkom'' (), were the highest executive (government), executive authorities of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), the Soviet Union (USSR), and the Sovi ...

USSR established the People's Commissariat of State Control to supervise "the legality, correctness, efficiency, and expediency of the turnover of the national and material capital, and safeguarding of this capital." February 1920 - the People's Commissariat of State Control was reorganized into the RKI (People's Commissariat of Workers' and Peasants' Inspection), which was given the assignment of organizing a campaign against bureaucracy and red tape, supervising the execution of government decrees, and judging the validity of complaints. April 1923 - the 12th Party Congress decreed the combining of the RKI with the TsKK ( Central Control Commission). The RKI-TsKK remained united from 1923 to 1934. February 1934 - the 17th Party Congress decreed the abolition of the RKI and the reorganization of the TsKK into the Party Control Commission under the TsK VKP(b). A new organ was established - the Soviet Control Commission under the Council of People's Commissars USSR. This Commission existed from February 1934 to September 1940 and was responsible mainly for checking on execution of government decrees. It did not control monetary or material expenditures. This control, ineffective though it was, was carried out by organs of the

People's Commissariat of Finance The Ministry of Finance of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (), formed on 15 March 1946, was one of the most important government offices in the Soviet Union. Until 1946 it was known as the People's Commissariat for Finance ( – ''N ...

and internal auditors. September 1940 - a

ukase In Imperial Russia, a ukase () or ukaz ( ) was a proclamation of the tsar, government, or a religious leadership (e.g., Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' or the Most Holy Synod) that had the force of law. " Edict" and " decree" are adequate trans ...

of the

Presidium of the Supreme Soviet The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet () was the standing body of the highest organ of state power, highest body of state authority in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).The Presidium of the Soviet Union is, in short, the legislativ ...

USSR established the

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People's Commissariat of State Control USSR to exercise strict control over accounting and expenditures of state funds, to check on execution of government decisions, and to strengthen state discipline. On 15 March 1946, the People's Commissariat of State Control USSR was reconstituted as the Ministry of State Control USSR.

List of ministers

* Eduard Essen (ru) (19.11.1917–1.3.1918) * Karl Lander (1.3.1918–1.3.1919) *

Josif Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret ...

(1.3.1919–27.12.1922) *

Alexander Tsiurupa Alexander Dmitryevich Tsiurupa (; — 8 May 1928) was a Bolshevik leader and Soviet politician. Biography Alexander Tsiurupa was born in Oleshky, in Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). His father was an official. After graduati ...

(27.12.1922–6.7.1923) *

Valerian Kuibyshev Valerian Vladimirovich Kuybyshev (; – 25 January 1935) was a Russian revolutionary, Red Army officer, and prominent Soviet politician. Biography Early years Born in Omsk in Siberia on , Kuybyshev studied at the , a Cadet Corps in O ...

(6.7.1923–2.2.1924) * Grigori Ordozhonikidze (5.11.1926–10.11.1930) *

Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev (; 30 October 1895 – 5 December 1971) was a Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Soviet Communist politician. An Old Bolshevik who rose to power during the rule of Joseph Stalin, joining the Politburo as a candid ...

(22.12.1930–1.1.1932) *

Jānis Rudzutaks Jānis Rudzutaks (; – 29 July 1938) was a Latvian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician. He was executed during the Great Purge. Early life Rudzutaks was born in the Kuldīga district of the Courland Governorate (present-day Kur ...

(1.1.1932–12.2.1934) *

Lev Mekhlis Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis (; 13 January 1889 – 13 February 1953) was a Soviet politician and a prominent officer in the Red Army from 1937 to 1942. As a senior political commissar, he became one of the main Stavka representatives on the East ...

(7.5.1941–15.3.1946)

References

External links

* State Control Supreme audit institutions 1946 establishments in the Soviet Union {{USSR-stub