Der Funktions- und Strukturwandel der Partei
The Functional and Structural Change of the Party

Summary/Abstract: The gap that exists between the high bureaucracy and the intelligence within the party has recently increased rather than diminished. This gap could only be bridged if the Bolshevik Party leadership increasingly understood itself as representing the interests of the intelligentsia (in the narrower sense) and not just the ruling high-bureaucracy. However, the Bolshevik Party could only count on a greater consensus of intelligence if it were prepared to restrict its autocratic rule and the total control and planning associated with it, which together make up the totalitarian character of the current one-party dictatorship, and to be more determined in facing its own to confront the Stalinist past.

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