Rabkrin

Rabkrin, RKI or Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate (WPI) (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская инспе́кция, Рабкри́н, РКИ) was a governmental establishment in the early Soviet Union responsible for scrutinizing the state, local and enterprise administrations from 1920 to 1934.

Beginnings of Rabkrin

Beginning in February 7, 1920, Rabkrin is established by the Soviet Central Executive Committee to succeed the People’s Commissariat for State Control. At the time of its creation, the term Rabkrin comes from the Russian title Narodnyi Kommissariat Raboche or the People’s Commissariat of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspectorate. Rabkrin was put in place to ensure the effectiveness of the newly created Soviet government, which had experienced bureaucratic turmoil that began during the Russian Revolution and had continued into the Russian Civil War. While the People’s Commissariat for State Control was a key institute for creating the Soviet Union, its mismanagement of bureaucratic control led Vladimir Lenin to disbanding the council, replacing it with a more manageable division of government authority. The former commissar of the People’s Commissariat for State Control, Joseph Stalin, was placed in charge of the newly formed agency. Rabkrin was to signal a new beginning of Soviet administration, it was a creation of the Soviet Union and therefore had no connection to the Russian Empire.