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The USSR was dominated by a bureaucratic ruling class. High level bureaucrats and party members got rich while the lower class was poor, in the first several decades extremely poor. The economy was all controlled by the state, and those in the upper levels of the state hierarchy used their control of the state to gain privilidges and wealth for themselves. They exploited the working class, extracting a surplus and living off the workers' & peasants' labor. It was much like having a single giant corporation monopolize the entire country and control everything. Allexandra Kollontai was the only senior Bolshevik leader to support Lenin's april theses from day one. In her pamhplet at http://www.geocities.com/cordobakaf/koll.html she provides ample information to support this.

The reason this ruling class was created is because they created a workers' state/dictatorship of the proletariat. All states are instruments of minority rule, attemtps to create states controlled by the majority always result in states controlled by a minority. This is what happened in Russia and every other time it was tried. The solution is to go straight to stateless communism.