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 NERFINISHED
chairperson Joseph Stalin NERFINISHED
country Soviet Union
decisionMakingStyle closed, top-level directive-based governance
deFactoSuperseded Council of Ministers of the USSR NERFINISHED
dissolved 1945-09-04
fullName State Defense Committee NERFINISHED
hasAuthorityOver Red Army NERFINISHED
Soviet Air Forces NERFINISHED
Soviet Navy NERFINISHED
Soviet defense industry NERFINISHED
Soviet wartime economy
civil defense measures
headOfGovernmentDuringExistence Joseph Stalin NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
Georgy Malenkov NERFINISHED
Kliment Voroshilov NERFINISHED
Lavrentiy Beria NERFINISHED
Lazar Kaganovich NERFINISHED
Nikolai Voznesensky NERFINISHED
Vyacheslav Molotov NERFINISHED
nativeName Государственный комитет обороны NERFINISHED
nativeNameLanguage Russian
partOf Soviet wartime command system
relatedEvent Great Patriotic War NERFINISHED
relatedOrganization State Defense Committee of the Council of People’s Commissars NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
significance central organ of Soviet wartime mobilization and control
subordinateTo formally the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
transcription Gosudarstvenny Komitet Oborony NERFINISHED
typeOfEmergencyBody extraordinary concentration of executive and party power

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