State Committee of the Soviet Union

A State Committee of the Soviet Union was a central government body within the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Unlike a ministry, which was responsible for the management of the country's economic and social resources within a particular field of development or activity, a state committee was acting on an inter-agency level.

The state committees were primarily responsible for several parts of government as opposed to the one specific topic for which a ministry was solely responsible. Therefore, many state committees had jurisdiction over certain common activities performed by ministries such as research and development, standardisation, planning, building construction, state security, publishing, archiving and so on. State committees were instrumental in keeping the vast Soviet economic system coherent and integrated.

State committees were not directly subordinate to the Soviet Government—rather the heads of state committees (along with ministers) formed the government (cabinet) such as the Council of People's Commissars (1922–1946), Council of Ministers (1946–1991) or the Cabinet of Ministers (1991).^[1]

List of committees

All-Union State Committee

Union-Republican state committees

References

↑ "Ministries, Economic". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 27 October 2019.

[1] "Ministries, Economic". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 27 October 2019.

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v t e All-Union Government of the Soviet Union
All-Union	President and Vice President of the Soviet Union list Presidential Council Federation Council State Council Security Council Premiers
Ministries (list)	Agricultural Products Procurement Agriculture and Food Installation and Special Construction Works Armament Agricultural Machine Building Aviation Industry Building Materials Industry Chemical Industry Chemical and Oil Machinery Building Civil Aviation Coal Industry Communications Communication Equipment Industry Construction Construction of Fuel Industry Construction of Heavy Industry Construction of Oil and Gas Industries Construction of Petrochemical Machinery Construction of Power Plants Construction and Road-Machine Building Construction of Tool-Machines Cotton Culture Defense Defense Industry Economy Education Electrical Engineering Electrical Power and Electrification Electronics Industry Electrotechnical Industry Energy and Electrification Environmental Protection Foreign Affairs Ferrous Metallurgy Finance Fishing Industry Foreign Economic Relations Forestry Fruits and Vegetables Gas Industry General Machine-Building Geology Grain Products Health Housing and Architecture Heavy Machine Building Heavy and Transport Machines Construction Higher Education Industrial Construction Installation and Special Construction Work Instrument-Making, Automation and Control Systems Internal Affairs Iron and Steel Justice Light Industry Land Reclamation and Water Resources Machine Building Machine Building for Animal Husbandry and Fodder Products Machine Building for Light and Food Industry Machine Tool and Tool Building Industry Machinery for Stock Raising and Feeding Manufacture of Communication Media Maritime Fleet Meat and Dairy Industry Medical Industry Medical and Microbiologiacal Industry Medium Machine-Building Mineral Fertilizer Production Metallurgy Non-Ferrous Metallurgy Nuclear Power Industry Oil Industry Oil and Gas Industry Oil Processing and Petrochemical Industry Pulp and Paper Industry Radio Industry Railways Rubber Industry Shipbuilding State Control State Farms State Security Technical Cultivation Textile Industry Timber Industry Timber, Paper and Wood Processing Industry Tool and Tool Building Industry Internal Trade Tractors and Agricultural Machines Trade Transport Construction Urban Construction
Regional ministries	Construction in the Eastern Regions Construction in the Far East and Transbaikal Regions Construction in the Northern and Western Regions Construction in the Southern Regions Construction in the Urals and West Siberian Regions
State Committees and commissions	Allocation Building Materials Cinematography Construction Defense State Defense Defense Technology Flight Safety Fuel Industry Labour and Social Issues Military-Industrial People's Control Prices Publishing Metallurgy State of Emergency Science and Technology Sports Standards and Product Quality Management State Planning State Security Chairmen Statistics Television and Radio Timber and Paper Industry Transport Construction

List of committees

See also

References