apparatchik
English
Etymology
From Russian аппара́тчик (apparátčik, “operator, apparatchik”), from аппара́т (apparát, “apparat, apparatus (of state)”) + suffix -чик (-čik).
Pronunciation
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Audio (UK): (file)
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Noun
apparatchik (plural apparatchiks or apparatchiki)
- (historical) A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent. [from 20th c.]
- 1965 February 12, “Russia: Borrowing from the Capitalists”, in Time[1], volume 85, →ISSN:
- 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 Communism's greatest debate since Stalin set backward Russia on its cruel-but successful-forced march into the 20th century industrial world.
- A blindly loyal bureaucrat. [from 20th c.]
- 2007 April 20, “Gonzales v. Gonzales”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
- Mr. Gonzales came across as a dull-witted apparatchik incapable of running one of the most important departments in the executive branch. […] He delegated responsibility for purging their ranks to an inexperienced and incompetent assistant who, if that’s possible, was even more of a plodding apparatchik.
- 2011 February 27, Peter Preston, “The Unfinished Global Revolution by Mark Malloch Brown – review”, in The Observer[3], →ISSN:
- He's so outspoken, so little the Labour apparatchik, that Prime Minister Brown decides he can't send this voluble critic of Iraq invasion to sit at a UN occasion alongside George W Bush.
Translations
member of a Communist apparat
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blindly loyal bureaucrat
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Further reading
- apparatchik on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
apparatchik m (plural apparatchiks)
Portuguese
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Noun
apparatchik m (plural apparatchiks)
- (historical) apparatchik (Communist bureaucrat or agent)
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