apparatchik

apparatchik
noun /apəˈɹatʃɪk,æpəˈɹæʧɪk/
a) A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent.

Whether conservatively toeing their Marx or boldly advocating such heretical Western-style reforms as the primacy of profits, every important planner, apparatchik and economist in Russia is caught up in Communisms greatest debate since Stalin set backward Russia on its cruel-but successful-forced march into the 20th century industrial world.

b) A blindly loyal bureaucrat.

In these dire conditions the ambitious Serbian Communist Party apparatchik Slobodan Milošević played the national card in Kosovo.


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