ABSTRACT
Bureaucracy seems to be a combination of the red tape of the inflexible system, which does not as yet sufficiently locate responsibility nor develop official initiative, coupled with the defects of character of the casual Russian peasant. There is in the Soviet Union today an undoubted denial of liberty. The government does not pretend or profess to provide for this bourgeois prejudice of liberty or formal democracy. It is a frank dictatorship. Although in aim it seeks to be democratic so far as the working class is concerned, for all others it takes the form sometimes of a tyranny and sometimes of a terror. It denies at one sweep freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, or association. One and only one political party is allowed. Another aspect of Communist tyranny and the denial of liberty is the refusal to allow any of the vast majority to leave the Soviet Union.
