Rabkrin

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Rabkrin, RKI or Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate (WPI) was a governmental establishment in Soviet Russia and early Soviet Union responsible for scrutinizing the state, local and enterprize administrations during 1920-1934. It was established on February 7, 1920 to replace the People's Commissariat for State Control. [1]

After failing its goals and having been severely criticized, among others by Vladimir Lenin himself, in 1923 it was merged with the CPSU Party Control Committee to become a joint control organ (PCC-WPI, TsKK-RKI) under a common chairman, to oversee state, economy, and Communist Party.

In 1934, at the 17th Party Congress, Rabkrin was dissolved and its functions were passed to the Sovnarkom's State Control Commission.

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  1. ^ Rees, E. A. (1987). State Control in Soviet Russia. The Rise and Fall of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate, 1920-1934.
  2. ^ a b c David R. Shearer (1996) Industry, State, and Society in Stalin's Russia, 1926-1934, Cornell University Press, ISBN 0801483859
  • Michael Perrins, Rabkrin and Workers' Control in Russia 1917-34, European History Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 2, 225-246 (1980), doi:10.1177/026569148001000204
  • S.N.Ikonnikov (1971) "Sozdanie i deyatelnost obyedinyonnykh organov TsKK-RKI v 1923-1934", Moscow (Russian)
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