Abstract
Soviet society, which has been called "real socialism" since the end of the 1960s, is not unique in the organization of its socioeconomic and political relations. It belongs to social systems of the barracks-caste type. They are characterized by their integration and functioning on the basis of a dictatorship by a ruling caste—i.e., the suppression of all interests and actions that diverge from its interests. The closest analog to the barracks-caste system that developed in the USSR was Hitler's Germany, where power and management were monopolized by a distinct caste-like stratum, and the ruling stratum interacted with the people by ignoring their interests, through standardization of the conditions and forms of life, through direct suppression, violence, and coercion.
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