Tag: Lev Bronstein

Bureaucracy, Not Open Politics, Dominates Russian Political Landscape, Sukhov Says

February 2, 2015

Staunton, February 2 – Russian revolutionary Lev Bronstein famously took his nom de guerre “Trotsky” from that of his first jailor because he observed in Russia there will always be jailors and bureaucrats. And indeed, Ivan Sukhov argues today, the Russian bureaucracy is still capturing those who try to lead it and overwhelming those who […]