Word: apparatchik
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...Aleksandr Deineka's solemn image of Lenin (who was childless) on a country spin in an open car with seven children, thus signifying his fatherhood of Russia. Why do we laugh? Because we do not grasp how, in the words of Towards a Theory of Art by an apparatchik named G. Nedoshivin, once "the basis in reality of this contradiction between poetry and truth is itself destroyed, then the truth of the social order itself appears deeply poetic . . . This is realized in socialist society...
From the moment that an administrative apparatchik of the Boston Chamber Music Society emerged on stage to push subscriptions on the already over-subscribed audience, it was clear that Saturday night's concert at Sanders Theatre was more an "event" than a chamber music concert. This atmosphere was only reinforced by the nature of the programming. The violinist Stephanie Chase was slated to play in each work, first Bartok's First Sonata for Violin and Piano, then the Brahms Horn Trio, and finally the Beethoven Septet. While programming for a single performer might be acceptable even in a chamber music...
...weeks of turmoil at the Congress of People's Deputies. After compromises had collapsed and a constitutional crisis had been averted, Gaidar fared poorly in a vote, and a weary Yeltsin caved in to the conservatives. To succeed Gaidar, Yeltsin sullenly chose Victor Chernomyrdin, 54, a former Communist Party apparatchik from the powerful energy industry...
Yeltsin has already tried to outmaneuver the parliament by setting up extragovernmental agencies that are answerable only to the President. Yet even Yeltsin's democratic supporters were concerned when he established a new security council to oversee defense, security, police and foreign-policy issues, with Yuri Skokov, an elusive apparatchik from the military-industrial sector, as chief of staff. It reminds too many people of the party's old secret Politburo. Yeltsin has also set up special commissions that report to him personally to deal with the agricultural crisis and the growing crime rate. Such moves have prompted the conservative...
...figure is mentioned more often as the man with whom Yeltsin must compromise than Arkadi Volsky. He is not the most extreme opponent, but he is the most powerful. A former Communist Party apparatchik and adviser to each of the past three Soviet leaders, Volsky, 60, has the assured air of a man who has walked the corridors of the Kremlin many times. Holding only a nominal party office at the time of the August 1991 coup, he escaped the guilt by association that taints other former high party officials. Many observers now consider him a future Prime Minister...