Word: apparatchiki
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From Kremlin bigwigs to local apparatchiki, Soviet leaders are now conceding what Western experts like Hedrick Smith--Moscow correspondent for the New York Times from 1971 to 1974--have known for decades: Lenin's experiment is a bust...
...there was a last straw, however, it was probably his determination to order yet another shake-up of the party apparatus at the coming November plenum of the Central Committee. This time it was to involve not only mid- level apparatchiki but higher cadre as well. Thus he encroached upon the holy of holies, the sanctum of the ruling class. Khrushchev's meddling could no longer be tolerated...
...elite class. Its many levels enjoy varying degrees of privilege according to rank. For Politburo members there is no limit or restriction on privileges. Below this level the grading structure begins. The Central Committee defines the place of anyone eligible for inclusion in the various categories: high party apparatchiki, Cabinet ministers, diplomats or individuals with unusual abilities or exceptional talents such as artists, scientists, Olympic champions and the like. Factory workers, farmers, engineers, lawyers, doctors, store managers and other private citizens are excluded...
...novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, he has been marked as a dissenter. While a handful of other Russian writers fled to the West, he remained determined to stay and work for the cause of literary freedom in the Soviet Union. In 1967 he angered the apparatchiki with his famous letter to the Fourth Congress of Soviet Writers, in which he condemned "the no longer tolerable oppression, in the form of censorship" to which the country's literature was subjected. Soviet officials became increasingly outraged after his books were smuggled to the West and published...
...French and Chinese, he has touted Hanoi's line in Vienna, Stockholm and Rangoon, as well as Peking, Moscow and other Communist capitals, where he has generally appeared in the guise of a journalistic commissar. The softspoken, stumpy Thuy, whose name means spring water, emulates stay-at-home apparatchiki in one respect: his private life is shadowed in secrecy. Thuy is known to have married and fathered children, but his family has been kept as hidden from foreign eyes as the bargaining points he carries to Paris inside his head...