Crossword clues for nomenklatura
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Russian, literally "a listing of positions to be filled," from Latin nomenclatura (see nomenclature).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now historical English) A list of bureaucratic posts in government and industry in the former Soviet Union (or other communist countries), filled by those appointed by the Party. (from 20th c.) 2 The people on such lists; by extension, any privileged class, a social or political elite. (from 20th c.)
WordNet
n. the system of patronage in Communist countries; controlled by committees in the Communist Party
Wikipedia
The nomenklatura (; ) were a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in the bureaucracy running all spheres of those countries' activity: government, industry, agriculture, education, etc., whose positions were granted only with approval by the communist party of each country or region.
Virtually all were members of the Communist Party. Critics of Stalin, such as Milovan Đilas, critically defined them as a new class. Trotskyism uses the term caste rather than class, because it sees the Soviet Union as a degenerated workers' state, not a new class society. Later developments of Trotsky's theories, notably Tony Cliff's theory of State Capitalism, did refer to the nomenklatura as a new class.
The nomenklatura forming a de facto elite of public powers in the previous eastern block, may be compared to the western establishment holding or controlling both private and public powers ( media, finance, trade, industry, state and institutions…)
Usage examples of "nomenklatura".
But we have classes, and of these the most privileged is the nomenklatura, the bureaucratic stratum of the Party.
But once I gained the position, my horizon expanded, and then that of the nomenklatura became too narrow for me.
The second possibility is that the nomenklatura sees the Tyrant of Jupiter as a direct threat to its interests, so acted to eliminate that threat immediately.
But today all must work for the benefit of the state—except the nomenklatura, who work only for themselves.
Every member of the nomenklatura in the entire region of Kraine was politely apprehended.
None of the nomenklatura would seek revenge against him, because he was obviously as much a victim as they.
In fact, even an incompetent bureaucracy can hang on tenaciously, as the nomenklatura showed, or the prior "good-old-boy" network I had rousted from Jupiter.
We reviewed the dossiers on the top personnel, looking not so much at the nomenklatura, whom we knew had to be removed, but at the ranking technicians and engineers, who knew their fields but could not make policy.
Here too, the nomenklatura dominated, seeing to it that no project become too efficient in the pursuit of its objective.
We made wholesale replacements in the supervisory personnel of the key departments, eliminating the nomenklatura and promoting the most competent underlings, so that normal operation hardly missed a step.
It was obvious that I had to be eliminated soon, or the nomenklatura would be out of power.
I realized too late: all he would have had to do was make a deal with the nomenklatura of Saturn, and they would have done the job for him.
Even threatened as they were with extinction as a class, the nomenklatura would not have dared do such a thing on their own.
As suspected, it was a collaboration between Tocsin and the nomenklatura of Saturn.
But today all must work for the benefit of the state-except the nomenklatura, who work only for themselves.