The bureaucracy wanted to maintain the status quo (and his privileged position in it) but in the long run their interest as a caste were directed to restore cap

The bureaucracy wanted to maintain the status quo (and his privileged position in it) but in the long run their interest as a caste were directed to restore capitalism, as they sat on a contradictory position (e.g., no inheritance rights). There was a big Trotsky-Burnham debate in late 1930's about this. The common idea of the soviet bureaucracy wanting only to keep the status quo made many in all sides of the ideological spectrum to be surprised by the USSR fast turn to capitalism.