In 1921, there were over 1,229,000 civil servants working in Russia. By 1925, the number of bureaucrats rose to 2.5 million (Ryavec, 28). Under the Communist Party, the massive increase in bureaucratic officials is largely due to the importance placed on the idea of ​​the state. The strong beliefs of the Communist Party in the USSR heavily influence 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 increased within the Soviet Union (Hollander, 305). The Soviet state would control every aspect of national life, from the economy to personal belief structures. To create a new system of equality and the idea of ​​a new man, all institutions had to be destroyed before being rebuilt. Attempting to break down the bureaucracy to reform it and adapt it to ideal Soviet structures would pose a major problem. Civil servants who chose to remain in the bureaucratic sector carried forward many imperialist ideas as the previous government, although socially imperfect, kept Russia afloat for centuries. Maintaining some aspects of the imperial system, albeit under a new façade, would allow the state to mediate for and