Russia: How the Bureaucracy Seized Power

In order to carry out a struggle against bureaucracy, Lenin advocated the setting up of a “Commission on Workers and Peasants Inspection” (RABKRIN), as the highest arbiter and guardian of party morality and as a weapon against alien elements in the Soviet state apparatus. At the centre of RABKRIN, Lenin placed a man whom he respected for his organi... See more

Friedrich Engels long ago explained that in any society in which art, science, and government are the preserve of a minority, that minority will use and abuse its position in its own interests. Because of the isolation of the revolution in a backward country the Bolsheviks were obliged to call on the services of a host of former tsarist officials t... See more