Noun

(en-noun)

(historical) A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent.

* {{quote-magazine, date = 1965-02-12

, title = Russia: Borrowing from the Capitalists , magazine = , volume = 85 , issn = 0040-781X , url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,840532,00.html , passage = Whether conservatively toeing their Marx or boldly advocating such heretical Western-style reforms as the primacy of profits, every important planner, apparatchik and economist in Russia is caught up in Communism's greatest debate since Stalin set backward Russia on its cruel-but successful-forced march into the 20th century industrial world. }}

* {{quote-book, year = 2007

, first = Elizabeth , last = Roberts , title = Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro , publisher = Cornell Univ. Press , location = Ithaca , isbn = 9780801446016 , lccn = 2006048845 , ol = 9776170M , page = 34 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=G62MCZ3RiIEC&pg=PA34&dq=apparatchik , passage = In these dire conditions the ambitious Serbo-Croatian Communist Party apparatchik Slobodan Miloševi? played the national card in Kosovo. }}

A blindly loyal bureaucrat.

* {{quote-news, date = 2007-04-20

, title = Gonzales v. Gonzales , url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/opinion/20fri1.html , newspaper = (The New York Times) , issn = 0362-4331 , passage = came across as a dull-witted apparatchik' incapable of running one of the most important departments in the executive branch. He delegated responsibility for purging their ranks to an inexperienced and incompetent assistant who, if that’s possible, was even more of a plodding ' apparatchik . }}

* {{quote-news, date = 2011-02-27

, title = The Unfinished Global Revolution by Mark Malloch Brown – review , first = Peter , last = Preston , newspaper = (The Observer) , issn = 0029-7712 , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/27/global-revolution-mark-malloch-brown-review , passage = He's so outspoken, so little the Labour apparatchik , that Prime Minister Brown decides he can't send this voluble critic of Iraq invasion to sit at a UN occasion alongside George W Bush. }}

Noun

(en noun)

One who makes decisions.