Who Are The Rulers in Russia?

What is this historical monstrosity, this illegitimate child of the mating between a “socialist-utopian” revolution and the murky past of Russia?

What is this historical monstrosity, this illegitimate child of the mating between a “socialist-utopian” revolution and the murky past of Russia? Students of Stalinism rack their brains, trying to find new labels for a new historical phenomenon or to fix it with old labels. State capitalism, a modern Asiatic despotism, socialism, or as the late Marxist theoretician, Rudolf Hilferding, held, a totalitarian society without precedent and free from the economic laws and trends of development which characterize the non-Stalinist world? Students of Russian society have approached this problem primarily through study of its economic system, but with little success, and mainly because in Russia the relation between economics...