nomenklaturistn.adj.

1981 Russ. Rev. 40 460 The Nomenklaturists are..a distinct and privileged class of parasitical exploiters who support the Party dictatorship.

1984 E. Mosbacher tr. M. Volensky Nomenklatura: Soviet Ruling Class iii. 84 A nomenklaturist's position is so secure that..even political indiscretions are overlooked.

1998 S. Brucan Social Change in Russia & Eastern Europe 73 Gusinski bought up dozens of dachas and properties around Moscow from ruined nomenklaturists.

1981 M. McCauley Soviet Union since 1917 xvii. 261 The nomenclaturist system goes back to the band of professional revolutionaries who instigated the October revolution.

1986 Defense & Foreign Affairs (Nexis) Nov. 21 The masters of the nomenklaturist state proclaimed at the time of their state creation that they were going to make a complete break with the whole policy of czarist Russia.

1993 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Oct. 10/4 The unreformability of the Soviet system..was accepted as a possibility by the Western academic class only after it was informed by reliable nomenclaturist sources that the Soviet system had, in fact, collapsed.

1998 New Leader (Nexis) 6 Apr. 16 After 1985 Gorbachev achieved nothing in his chosen ‘field’ of nomenklaturist oversight, agriculture.