This article is devoted to a critical analysis of the creative work of Victor Pavlovich Makarenko, a leading representative of Russian weberianism, a founder of the South Russian School of Political Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy and Political Sciences. No generation of researchers studying the works of Max Weber passes by the work of the scientist “Faith, Power and Bureaucracy: Criticism of Sociology by Max Weber”, which is generally accepted in Russian science. At the same time, the problems of bureaucracy and its assessment from the point of view of the evolution of the Russian statehood are the red thread running through all the major works of the outstanding Russian researcher. In 2019, a collection of works by V.P. Makarenko is published in three volumes, which contains his selected works on power and bureaucracy. The author of this article seeks to give an overall assessment of this work with an emphasis on the basic work of the scientist “Faith, Power and Bureaucracy: Criticism of Max Weber’s Sociology”, which laid the conceptual foundation for subsequent works.