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How to pronounce nomenklatura in English?

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Type of patronage

Examples of nomenklatura

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The nomenklatura has too much at stake to let anything at all change in North Korea.
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Nomenklatura enjoyed many perquisites denied to the average Soviet citizen.
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It's a shame that only the nomenklatura will be able to afford the tickets.
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It is the pampering of the nomenklatura that is bankrupting cities, counties and nations.
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The Bulgarian Communist Party created an extensive nomenklatura on each organizational level.
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Its demise is seen as the onset of the rise of the nomenklatura class of Soviet apparatchiks.
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Nomenklatura is a caste system that applies only to the elite class.
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For now, most of the Moscow nomenklatura don't seem to get this.
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Ordinary Georgians associate her with the Soviet-era nomenklatura.
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  • The system of patronage in communist countries; controlled by committees in the Communist Party
  • The nomenklatura (Russian: u043Du043Eu043Cu0435u043Du043Au043Bu0430u0442u0443u0301u0440u0430; IPA:u00A0; Latin: nomenclatura) were a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in the bureaucracy running all spheres of those countries' activity: government, industry, agriculture, education, etc...
  • The system of bureaucratic patronage in the former Soviet Union; The lists of appointments in this system, and the people on such lists; The upper echelons of Soviet society
  • A Soviet institution which was designed to preserve the dominant role of the Communist Party by giving out responsible positions to those loyal to the regime. ...
  • The CPSU's (q.v.) system of appointing key personnel in the government and other important organizations, based on lists of critical positions and people in political favor. Also refers to the individuals included on these lists.
  • Rus. The nomenklatura formed an informal elite group within the Soviet Union from which all important political posts were appointed and which comprised the establishment. ...
  • As defined in Russia and the Commonwealth is, Technically the list of candidates suitable to fill posts within the control of the party (Bachkatov and Wilson pg 156).