Definizione monolingua

apparatchik

apparatchik (plural apparatchiks or apparatchiki)

1. (historical) A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent. [from 20th c.]
   • 1965 February 12, “Russia: Borrowing from the Capitalists”^[1], Time, volume 85, ISSN 0040-781X:?

     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.

   • 2007, Roberts, Elizabeth, Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro, Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, ISBN 9780801446016, LCCN 2006048845, OL 9776170M, page 34:

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

2. A blindly loyal bureaucrat. [from 20th c.]
   • 2007 April 20, “Gonzales v. Gonzales”, The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:

     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, Preston, Peter, “The Unfinished Global Revolution by Mark Malloch Brown – review”, The Observer, ISSN 0029-7712:

     Hes so outspoken, so little the Labour apparatchik, that Prime Minister Brown decides he cant send this voluble critic of Iraq invasion to sit at a UN occasion alongside George W Bush.

Definizione dizionario apparatchik

	apparatcik
	member of a Communist apparat

	apparat?ik
	High ranked member of the government in Soviet Union.

Altri significati:

(historical) A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent. [from 20th c.]

A blindly loyal bureaucrat. [from 20th c.]