Functions of the Socialist State and Its Apparatus of Administration

Abstract

Under the conditions of socialism, when the state administers the economy and sociocultural development directly, administration heads the list of all forms of state activity. The functions of the socialist state are therefore realized primarily through state administration. Or from another perspective, none of these functions can be implemented without the involvement of some link in the administrative apparatus. Under these conditions, identification of the functions of government means, to a great degree indeed, identification of the major directions, the most important aspects of the content of the activity of the apparatus of state administration. It is precisely with respect to the latter that the theory of functions acquires the greatest practical significance.