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Definitions
the system of patronage in communist countries; controlled by committees in the Communist Party
Word origin
Borrowed from Russian номенклату́ра (nomenklatúra), from Latin nōmenclātūra (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nomen (“name”) + calare (“call”). Doublet of nomenclature.
Used in a sentence
“[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).”
“During the long rule of Leonid Brezhnev (1964–1982), the nomenklatura had cemented their power in the system.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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