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)
- 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, Finance, Foreign Trade
- Representatives of trade unions in the Soviet Union
- Chairman of the Central Statistical Office
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