Role of the state defense committee (GKO) in public administration of tank industry in USSR and the Urals during 1941-1945

The article reveals the mechanism of action of the State Defense Committee, as the highest organ of emergency power, the control process of the tank industry in the period of the Great Patriotic War. It is shown that the degree of mutual influence of GKO members and senior executives NKTP (People’s Commissariat of the Tank Industry) in the course of decision-making. The paper shows a mechanism of interaction with the State party and industrial elite, in order to harmonize public policy for the management of the tank industry of the USSR and the Urals in 1941-1945; is the author’s periodization of the development of administrative structures of GKO; It shows the impact of formal and bureaucratic mechanisms and practices of informal communication in the form of administrative decisions. As part of the modernization theory provides an assessment of the efficiency and innovation study governance practices in the extreme conditions of war.