nomenklatura
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4ADJ.
under
VERB + NOMENKLATURA
practice
NOMENKLATURA + NOUN
commissars
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in
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noun
A list of bureaucratic posts in government and industry in the former Soviet Union and other communist countries, filled by those appointed by the Party.
The people on such lists; (by extension), any privileged class, a social or political elite.
[Gorbachev] did not champion perestroika and glasnost alone; much of the nomenklatura had decided that the Soviet economic and social model was dysfunctional, corrupt and endemically inefficient and had to change.
Communism envisioned […] an Authority Ranking of political control (in theory, the dictatorship of the proletariat; in practice, a nomenklatura of commissars under a charismatic dictator).
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3[Gorbachev] did not champion perestroika and glasnost alone; much of the nomenklatura had decided that the Soviet economic and social model was dysfunctional, corrupt and endemically inefficient and h
WiktionaryCommunism envisioned […] an Authority Ranking of political control (in theory, the dictatorship of the proletariat; in practice, a nomenklatura of commissars under a charismatic dictator).
WiktionaryDuring the long rule of Leonid Brezhnev (1964–1982), the nomenklatura had cemented their power in the system.
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