I think the author does not present adequate evidence to support his argument. This is because all he wrote was a scenarios that he can envision given the circumstances. There are no accurate data given like statistics, transcriptions, or even bills or laws that supports his views. All I can glean is that these are suppositions that may or may not be true given the circumstances it is presented with.
One of the thems
because they don't make any sense
Kovalf was a committee-man. He had been one for two years and he couldn't take that out of his own head. This only shows how much the Russian society used to value their titles back then and this might actually be true today.
Kovalf could never forget that he was once a committee-man, therefore to boost his own importance, even to himself, he started calling himself "Major".
