Word: technocratic
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...Whole Book. Besides these three, Khrushchev removed a man once regarded as his protégé: leonine, lug-eared Dmitry Shepilov, 51, ex-Foreign Minister responsible for the disastrous Soviet buildup in Egypt. For good measure Khrushchev threw out a couple of technocrat Deputy Premiers who had got in the way of his industrial planning: Maxim Saburov and Mikhail Pervukhin...
Comrade Maximov was a horrible example in Khrushchev's cautious but crucial struggle with the technocrat commissars, who have been demanding less interference from boards of bureaucratic directors in Moscow, more autonomy in their plants and more control over the men under them, i.e., more freedom, which in Russia can only mean less bother with the party hacks. Recently Khrushchev produced a much publicized scheme for the decentralization of Soviet industry that seemed to answer the demands of the technocrat commissars (TIME, April...
...party hacks are strongest. Among those presumably to be abolished was the ministry of Khrushchev's predecessor and rival, the Ministry of Electric Power Stations, run by Georgy Malenkov, who set up and top-managed the Soviet industrial might in World War II and presumably speaks for the technocrat class...
...boss of a Moscow experimental production plant. His modest history gave no hint of where he stood in the party power struggle except that he had been a functionary in the Moscow party organization (Malenkov's old stamping ground) and that his meteoric rise resembled that of many technocrat commissars. In his new job he ranks as one of the Soviet Union's six First Deputy Premiers (the others: Kaganovich, Mikoyan, Molotov, Pervukhin, Saburov...
...Nasser), whose main concern seems to be a desire to see that no one else gets too much power. This leaves the balance of power to be exercised, in uneasy tension, by such forces as the Red marshals (backed by the army cadres in the party), the industrial elite (technocrat commissars), or the bureaucracy. When it became clear to the party leaders a couple of years ago that this situation was unlikely to resolve itself for some time to come, and certainly not without great internal stress, they saw that what was needed for their mutual and collective protection...