State Defence Committee

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The State Defence Committee was the supreme emergency governing body of the Soviet Union during World War II, concentrating all military, political, and economic power under a small leadership group headed by Joseph Stalin.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf emergency governing body
wartime supreme authority
appliesToJurisdiction Soviet Union
chairperson Joseph Stalin
country Soviet Union
dissolved 1945
1945-09-04
followedBy Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (restored full authority)
hasAuthorityOver Red Army
Soviet Air Forces
Soviet Navy
Soviet labor mobilization
Soviet raw materials allocation
Soviet transportation system
Soviet wartime industry
hasPart defence subcommittees
evacuation commissions
industrial subcommittees
transport subcommittees
hasRole centralization of economic management
centralization of military power
centralization of political power
strategic decision-making
wartime mobilization
headOfGovernment Joseph Stalin
headquartersLocation Moscow
inception 1941-06-30
jurisdictionOver Soviet occupied territories
Soviet partisan movement
linked to: Soviet partisans
languageOfWorkOrName Russian
legalForm extra-constitutional body
location Moscow
member Georgy Malenkov
Kliment Voroshilov
Lavrentiy Beria
Nikolai Voznesensky
Vyacheslav Molotov
memberOf Soviet government
nativeLabel Государственный Комитет Обороны
notableWork coordination of Soviet war economy
organization of industrial evacuation to the east
partOf Soviet wartime command system
reasonForCreation German invasion of the Soviet Union
Operation Barbarossa
replaces Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union (in wartime powers)
regular Soviet governmental structures (in emergency matters)
shortName GKO
significantEvent Great Patriotic War
linked to: World War II

World War II
subordinateTo Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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