Russians and non‐Russians in the USSR

Marxism and ‘Really Existing Socialism’

“…A hierarchyor rather a network of hierarchies -within the party state implies for this very reason the concept of "more" or "less" power, rather than a simple division between rulers and ruled'. 35 This is not very different from David Lane's 36 'competing elites in a bureaucratic structure', and he too would reject ruling class. But these two critiques are not from a 'left' perspective, if by this is meant an attitude with direct or indirect links with Trotskyism or Maoism.…”