The book of the famous political scientist of the Russian diaspora, writer and publicist Abdurakhman Genazovich Avtorkhanov (1908-1997) talks about the emergence of a partocracy of power in the Land of Soviets, the scheme of the functioning of the Soviet political machine and the backstage struggle for power. Introducing the term "partocracy," the author conducts a historical excursion, talking about the stages of the emergence and formation of the Central Committee. Avtorkhanov notes that the history of the origin of partocracy is the history of the Leninist Central Committee.