Word: technocrat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...years when Georgy Malenkov was Stalin's personnel manager, he helped his boss build up a hierarchy of young technocrat-commissars. To get his men into key jobs, Malenkov had to shove out many a stubborn old Bolshevik. At the Commissariat of Heavy Industry, where old-line Commissar Ordzhonikidze gave notice that he would resist purging, Malenkov quietly put in his own security chief. The new man quickly turned over the commissariat's personnel files to the NKVD (central secret police), thus putting them in a position to purge most of Ordzhonikidze's engineers...
...star of Georgy Malenkov and his technocrat-commissars was on the wane, that of Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev rapidly rising. Shortly after Malenkov's dramatic resignation (February 1955), the world learned that Kruglov was not, after all, top Soviet security man, but that there had existed for some months a higher State Security Committee, presided over by Kruglov's former deputy Ivan Serov. When Khrushchev went junketing to India, it was Serov who went along with him. Meanwhile, Minister Kruglov's department was under oblique criticism: his organization had failed to curb abuses in such pet Khrushchev...
...From my viewpoint, as a Technocrat,* the entire problem could best be summed up thus: for our physical needs we try to create an abundance-by using the technique of creating an artificial scarcity to keep prices up-so we may obtain enough money to purchase that abundance out of the scarcity. In short, we seek abundance and scarcity simultaneously...