The role of Marxist theory in the development of soviet control authorities

The research attempts to examine the relationship between the creative heritage of K. Marx related to the control over authorities and the Bolshevik practices of creating a control system in Russia in the first third of the twentieth century. The paper considers the works of K. Marx, V.I. Lenin, N.I. Bukharin, and A.I. Rykov. The study is based on the methods of historical science such as comparison, systematization, and historical continuity. The authors make the following conclusions. The Marxist concept of control was based on the ideas of the state as a tool for providing power to the ruling class, the control as a necessary element of socialized production, the dualistic nature of control, the impossibility of democratic control in a bourgeois society. However, the lack of clear ideas of K. Marx about the public working control mechanism gave a wide range of interpretation opportunities to Russian Marxists. Besides, it led to new political institutions and above all social and state control bodies (Workers and Peasants Inspectorate) that were responsible for not only controlling but also staff training and rotation, the legitimization of the Bolsheviks.