Word: nomenklatura
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agency and staff. These full-time party professionals, numbering some 200,000, exercise broad supervisory powers over their governmental opposites. The party's chief means of maintaining primacy over the nation's other bureaucracies, including the trade unions and police as well as the government, is the power of nomenklatura, the hiring and firing of officials outside the party apparatus. Brezhnev would have also had to secure the loyalty of a second source of power?those groups that exercise an informal influence on the Politburo. The most important of these is the coterie of party officials based outside Moscow; they...