SOVIET CIVIL SERVANTS AS A RULING SOCIAL STRATUM: HISTORIOGRAPHIC ASPECT
The article considers domestic and foreign interpretations of social and economic essence of the Soviet civil servants. Special attention is paid to studying historians’ opinions on the issue of managers’ participation in the realization of the right of ownership on means of production. According to the dominant viewpoint, civil servants shared ownership on means of production and came out as a basic instrument of capitalistic transformation of the Soviet Union. Historiography of the problem contains works dedicated to the formation of the proprietary class in the USSR.