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plural nomenklaturas
(now historical) A list of bureaucratic posts in government and industry in the former Soviet Union (or other communist countries), filled by those appointed by the Party.
(collective) The people on such lists; (by extension), any privileged class, a social or political elite. quotations examples
Communism envisioned […] an Authority Ranking of political control (in theory, the dictatorship of the proletariat; in practice, a nomenklatura of commissars under a charismatic dictator).
2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 764
During the long rule of Leonid Brezhnev (1964–1982), the nomenklatura had cemented their power in the system.
2023, Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution, Public Affairs