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Definition of Apparatchiks
1. apparatchik [n] - See also: apparatchik
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apparatchiks
Literary usage of Apparatchiks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine after Totalitarianism by Alexander J. Motyl (1993)
"And what is perhaps most unfortunate, like the apparatchiks, ... Finally, in
contrast to the apparatchiks, the new elites are splintered and splintering. ..."
2. Relative Connections by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1993)
"Timofeyev stated: “The term ‘wild privatization' has gained currency in Russia
to describe the spontaneous effort of yesterday's apparatchiks to seize as ..."
3. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell (1996)
"... during the Spanish Civil War but about Stalin's murderous political apparatchiks
who had gained partial control of the Spanish government by 1937. ..."
4. Sea-Changes: American foreign policy in a world transformed by Nicholas X. Rizopoulos (1990)
"... Egon Krenz from office, forced the old-line party apparatchiks to step aside,
and ultimately forced the issue of reunification. ..."
5. Central Asia and the World: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan by Michael Mandelbaum (1994)
"27 The apparatchiks yet running the Southern Tier made their way up the slippery
hierarchy of the Communist Party by pleasing their superiors, and they have ..."
6. The New Detente: Rethinking East-West Relations by Mary Kaldor, Gerard Holden, Richard A. Falk (1989)
"Many representatives of the 'new generation' of apparatchiks, who had been able
to acquire important responsibilities during the course of events in 1985-86 ..."