Rabkrin

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. [Rees, E. A. (1987). State Control in Soviet Russia. The Rise and Fall of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate, 1920-1934.]

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.

Heads

*Joseph Stalin (1920-)
*A. D. Tsyurupa (1922-)
*Valerian Kuybyshev (1923-)
*Sergo Ordzhonikidze (1926-1930)
**Yakov Yakovlev (deputy chairman)David R. Shearer (1996) Industry, State, and Society in Stalin's Russia, 1926-1934, Cornell University Press, ISBN 0801483859]
**AP.Rozengol (deputy chairman)
*Andrei Andreyev (1930-)
*Yan Rudzutak (1931-1934)

ee also

*People's Control

References

*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 ru icon