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US
/noʊˌmɛŋkɫəˈtʃʊɹə/
]
NOUN
- the system of patronage in communist countries; controlled by committees in the Communist Party
How To Use nomenklatura In A Sentence
- The Scientific Nomenklatura won't be able to prevent design being discussed in the universities campi much longer. Arbor Vitae Press Info?
- While peasants starved and city workers toiled in the forests of factories, Russia's new ruling class - the nomenklatura - lived in the defunct palaces of the Tsarist court and newly constructed dachas in the countryside.
- Glass cites the example of the Soviet Union, whose old nomenklatura may now be numbered among ‘the tyrants and spivs of the succeeding capitalist order’.
- Based on a nomenklatura system, all key positions in the state administration, the economy, education, the media, and the military were controlled by the party.
- Far from preventing the restoration of capitalism and the victory of ‘civil society’, Stalin actually paved the way for it by ‘creating’ the nomenklatura.
- Exploiting the center’s weakness, nomenklatura nationalists in the republics set out to grab federal assets in the name of nationalities whose identities they had sometimes spent decades repressing. The Return
- It's about wrecking the nomenklatura state and bringing law back to Russia.
- Scotland no longer has a middle class, either on the Victorian entrepreneurial model or within the Marxist concept of the bourgeoisie: instead, it has a Soviet-style nomenklatura, a public-sector salariat living well.
- I'll let you enjoy the silly stuff over there; here I want to highlight one paragraph about finding new words and usages on the internet:That's where Oxford lexicographer Erin McKean has found words like farb (not authentic, badly done), nomenklatura (non-literally; by analogy), drabble (a short story of 100 words or fewer), haxie (a hack for the Macintosh operating system) and swancho (a combination poncho/sweater). Languagehat.com: NOMENKLATURA?
- And if now, in the inevitable reflux, the BNP can do some dirty but needful work contributary to breaking the citadels of the lunatic British nomenklatura, then more power to them. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...