Soviets: utopian solution to a real problem

The article analyzes the desire of the head of the first Soviet government V. I. Lenin to theoretically substantiate and put into practice the Soviet system of organization of power. It is shown that the Soviet state was considered by him as free from such negative aspects of public power as bureaucracy, the gap between word and deed and, most importantly, the protection of the interests of the ruling exploiting class. According to Lenin, the institutions of formal democracy do not make the bourgeois state truly democratic, since it expresses the will of the exploiting minority. The article shows the direction of V. I. Lenin on this issue, which led him to the conclusion that it was necessary to transfer the government of the state into the hands of the workers and peasants themselves, that is, the exploited majority, which, according to the logic of V. I. Lenin and make the Soviet state truly democratic and, at the same time, make it, as it were, a "state-non-state". In conclusion, the article concludes that Lenin's vision of the new state was initially utopian, contradicted the logic of the development of social systems, and the Soviet state from the first years of its existence initially developed as a "typical" corresponding political institution. Thus V. I. Lenin failed to solve the problem of bureaucracy in the RSFSR-USSR, which he would have liked very much.