ABSTRACT
The October Revolution, replacing the old state machine by the workers', peasants', and soldiers' soviets, dealt the heaviest blow in history to the old idol of the bureaucratic state. 'Waging the most bitter struggle with bureaucratism, the Russian Communist Party advocates for the complete conquering of this evil'. The question of Soviet bureaucratism is not only a question of red tape and swollen official staffs. On the eve of the October Revolution, Lenin, referring to the Marxian analysis of the Paris Commune, strongly emphasized the thought that 'under socialism official people will cease to be bureaucrats, to be 'Chinovniks'. The 'instructions' of 1925, which gave elective rights to innumerable exploiting elements, were only one very clear expression of the fact that the bureaucratic apparatus, to its very top, has become responsive to the importunities of the wealthy, accumulating, prosperous elements of the community.
