[Gorbachev] did not champion perestroika and glasnost alone; much of the nomenklatura had decided that the Soviet economic and social model was dysfunctional, corrupt and endemically inefficient and had to change.
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Nomenklatura
Synonyms for "nomenklatura"
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14 translations across 11 languages.
Finnish
1 entries- nomenklatuura noun (list of posts in Soviet Union)
French
2 entries- nomenklatura noun (list of posts in Soviet Union)
- nomenklature noun (a social or political elite class)
Greek
1 entries- νομενκλατούρα noun (list of posts in Soviet Union)
Italian
1 entries- nomenklatura noun (list of posts in Soviet Union)
Marathi
2 entries- नोमेनक्लातुरा noun (list of posts in Soviet Union)
- नोमेनक्लातुरा noun (a social or political elite class)
Polish
1 entries- nomenklatura noun (list of posts in Soviet Union)
Portuguese
1 entries- nomenclatura noun (list of posts in Soviet Union)
Russian
1 entries- номенклату́ра noun (list of posts in Soviet Union)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- nomenklatúra noun (list of posts in Soviet Union)
- номенклату́ра noun (list of posts in Soviet Union)
Swedish
1 entries- nomenklatura noun (list of posts in Soviet Union)
Ukrainian
1 entries- номенклату́ра noun (list of posts in Soviet Union)
Sample sentences
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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).
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During the long rule of Leonid Brezhnev (1964–1982), the nomenklatura had cemented their power in the system.
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