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Lenin's death opens a succession crisis

Was the bureaucracy a new ruling class?

Stalin's dictatorship, a shield for the bureaucracy against the proletariat

The internal evolution of the bureaucracy

Khrushchev's reforms and the backlash

From Khrushchev to Gorbachev

The social forces at work behind the scene

The process leading to the August coup

The bureaucracy's strong men push their advantage

A process of disintegration in the making