State Defense Committee

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The State Defense 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 group led by Joseph Stalin.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet state organ
emergency governing body
wartime supreme authority
alsoKnownAs GKO
Defense Council of the USSR
surface form: Gosudarstvenny Komitet Oborony

Gosudarstvenny Komitet Oborony SSSR
appliesToEvent World War II
surface form: Great Patriotic War

World War II
appliesToJurisdiction Soviet Union
surface form: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
appointedBy Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
chairperson Joseph Stalin
country Soviet Union
dateFounded 1941-06-30
dissolved 1945-09-04
endTime 1945-09-04
fieldOfWork foreign policy in wartime
internal security
military strategy
national defense
war economy management
foundedBy Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
surface form: Supreme Soviet of the USSR
hasAuthorityOver Red Army
Soviet Air Forces
Soviet Navy
Soviet civil administration
Soviet economy
Soviet internal security organs
headOfGovernment Joseph Stalin
headquartersLocation Moscow
historicalPeriod Eastern Front of World War II
inception 1941-06-30
languageOfName Russian
leader Joseph Stalin
legalForm State Committee on the State of Emergency in the USSR
surface form: extraordinary state committee
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
locationOfFormation Moscow
member Anastas Mikoyan
Georgy Malenkov
Kliment Voroshilov
Lavrentiy Beria
Nikolai Voznesensky
Vyacheslav Molotov
memberOf Soviet wartime command structure
reasonForCreation emergency centralization of power during German invasion
replaced normal constitutional governance procedures in the USSR
replacedBy Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
surface form: Council of Ministers of the USSR
scopeOfAuthority arms production
civil defense
economic planning
industrial evacuation and relocation
military affairs
mobilization of manpower
resource allocation
significantEvent coordination of Soviet war effort against Nazi Germany
startTime 1941-06-30
subordinateTo no other Soviet authority during World War II

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Stavka subordinateTo State Defense Committee