GKO

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GKO was the supreme emergency governing body of the Soviet Union during World War II, overseeing the country’s military, economic, and political mobilization for the war effort.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet state committee
supreme emergency governing body
wartime government body
aim ensure victory in the Great Patriotic War
appliesToPeriod World War II
chairperson Joseph Stalin
country Soviet Union
decisionMakingStyle closed, top-level directive-based governance
deFactoSuperseded Council of Ministers of the USSR
dissolved 1945-09-04
fullName State Defense Committee
hasAuthorityOver Red Army
Soviet Air Forces
Soviet Navy
Soviet defense industry
Soviet wartime economy
civil defense measures
headOfGovernmentDuringExistence Joseph Stalin
historicalContext created after German invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa)
inception 1941-06-30
issued binding decrees and directives
jurisdiction entire Soviet territory
legalBasis decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
locatedIn Moscow
member Anastas Mikoyan
Georgy Malenkov
Kliment Voroshilov
Lavrentiy Beria
Lazar Kaganovich
Nikolai Voznesensky
Vyacheslav Molotov
nativeName Государственный комитет обороны
nativeNameLanguage Russian
partOf Soviet wartime command system
relatedEvent Great Patriotic War
relatedOrganization State Defense Committee of the Council of People’s Commissars
replaced normal peacetime governance mechanisms of the USSR
responsibleFor control of armaments production
coordination of military and economic policy
evacuation of industry
overall wartime mobilization
strategic resource allocation
shortName GKO
significance central organ of Soviet wartime mobilization and control
subordinateTo formally the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
transcription Gosudarstvenny Komitet Oborony
typeOfEmergencyBody extraordinary concentration of executive and party power

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