Bureaucracy and the Soviet model of administration: contradictions of compromise

The paper analyzes role of bureaucracy in public administration. The paper presents various interpretations of the essence of this phenomenon: from Hegelian praise and Marxist criticism to the synthesized ideas of M. Weber on “rational bureaucracy”. According to the author’s opinion, bureaucracy is an organizational and technical basis of a state machine that adapts to any kind of political power. The author supposes that the Soviet model of administration is a dominance of nomenklatura, which was practically a “new class”, possessing power and property. The author concludes that the Soviet model of administration has genetic relationship with the modern post-Soviet bureaucracy, which also seeks to escape from public control, to appropriate state resources and to regulate legal relations in its own interests.