Monopoly power and state-duplicating structures caused communist party organizational sprawl

Evidence

There were three main reasons for this organizational sprawl throughout the communist era. First, the parties held a monopoly on legislative, executive, and judicial decisions and administration. Second, the structures of the parties duplicated those of the state – the real center of power lay in the communist party departments that corresponded to the government ministries, multiplying the party bureaucracy. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 378