In 1921, more than 1,229,000 civil servants worked in Russia. By 1925, the number of bureaucrats reached 2.5 million (Ryavec, 28). Under the Communist Party, the massive increase in the number of bureaucratic officials was largely due to the emphasis on the notion of the state. The strong beliefs of the Communist Party in the USSR strongly influenced the idea of ​​the state. The Soviet Union lacked heterogeneity, which led to attempts to diversify major Russian institutions such as the political, administrative, economic, and even cultural sectors. The attempt to pluralize and create independent institutions did not always work as bureaucratic power grew within the Soviet Union (Hollander, 305). The Soviet state would control every aspect of national life, from the economy to personal belief structures. In order to create a new system of equality and the idea of ​​the new man, all institutions had to be dismantled before being rebuilt. Attempting to break up the bureaucracy and reform it to fit ideal Soviet structures would pose a significant problem. Civil servants who chose to remain in the bureaucratic sector took up many imperialist ideas as the previous government, although socially imperfect, kept Russia afloat for centuries. Maintaining certain aspects of the imperial system, albeit under a new facade, would allow the state to act as a mediator for and