ABSTRACT
Abolition of the institution of bureaucracy in a socialist state was easier said then done. Many of the leaders of the exploited classes in the Soviet Russia who owed allegiance to the theory of social dynamics propounded by Marx and Engels, showed poor understanding of Marxian method and, therefore, lacked the capacity to analyse the objective conditon then prevailing in the world arena. The leaders probably did not realize that they were at a stage when they were involved in conducting scientific experiment and, thereby, were capable of providing hypotheses and not correct theories. The adoption of Perestroika and Glasnost , i.e., ushering in of openness and democracy to reform the authoritarian and a highly bureaucratic socialist regime in mid-eighties, did not improve the matters. The collapse of a socialist state which held its sway in the world arena for about three quarters of a century became inevitable.
