They represent the idea of nomenklatura, or bureaucratic capitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dangers Ahead] Reference

When Russia, China and Vietnam liberalized, the nomenklatura were the first to move into “private” business and did very well enriching themselves and their families.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Trouble in North Korea] Reference

"But the economic interests of this 'nomenklatura' aren't compatible with the state's future prosperity.".    From Wordnik.com.  [What on Earth Happened to the New York GOP?] Reference

In every communist system, the "nomenklatura," of which Clinton would certainly qualify as a member, will have access to special medical care, grocery stores, dachas, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

La nomenklatura - Les privilégiés en URSS, Michael Voslensky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-27] Reference

Just one more sinecure for the nomenklatura and it means nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Review: Where the Eagle Landed] Reference

Run by nomenklatura supporting a leader out of touch with reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Food police: Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP)] Reference

New options from the nomenklatura listed below is a silly oxymoron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert David Steele: Obama's Choice] Reference

Part of a nomenklatura supporting a leader out of touch with reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denis MacShane: Lazy champagne swilling socialist.] Reference

And Tony Blair and the nomenklatura have already shut down all your avenues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cash for Honours: Whodunnit?] Reference

When Yeltsin could have swept the nomenklatura out of office, in 1991, he did not.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Side of Ultima Thule] Reference

Perhaps he uses a Soviet model, of the nomenklatura? the Broederbund of South Africa?.    From Wordnik.com.  [In New Letter, Clinton's Lawyers Demand ABC Yank Film] Reference

It's certainly a system under which the Socialist nomenklatura lives very, very well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Zuckerberg's philanthropy is reason enough to applaud him | Arianna Huffington] Reference

The Polish/read Scots leader machinations are devious but we nomenklatura will outwit them.    From Wordnik.com.  [It is interesting that Sir George Young took the opportunity...] Reference

In the Soviet Union, those privileged by political connections were called the nomenklatura.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Obamaklatura] Reference

There is another influence: according to the nomenklatura, Arizona has turned into the Gulag.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Russian Influence on American Law] Reference

I think its so nice to see such impartial reporting on the part of the New Labour nomenklatura.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC = Pravda: Anita Anand wears O'Bambi hat, achieves "Obasm".] Reference

But Maher reveals the true Party doctrine: privacy exists only for the nomenklatura of democrats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outed and out.] Reference

It's called freedom of speech and it appears to frighten some people, especially the nomenklatura.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Register of Member's Interests Revisited] Reference

The monument, by the way, wasn't hatched on the 11th floor by nefarious gubernatorial nomenklatura.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference

The First Directorate's men and women were drawn from the elite of Soviet society know as the "nomenklatura.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Margolis: Desperate Spywives] Reference

Labour & their champagne swilling backers all part of a nomenklatura supporting a leader out of touch with reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burns Night.] Reference

His entourage is a nomenklatura of consumerism, comfortable in and with the West, but deeply unpopular on the street.    From Wordnik.com.  [After the Pharaoh] Reference

Maybe there were no more nomenklatura in this city, but rank did have its privileges, and he was chairman of the SVR.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bear and the Dragon]

Because the entire old nomenklatura and the secret service have divided up all the positions in the country between them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herta Müller - Interview] Reference

Restrictions easily morph into arbitrary numbers, so someone in the vast prison nomenklatura decided that ten books was the right number.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenneth Hartman: Reading In Prison: Ten Books; No Hard Covers] Reference

But advantages of power and wealth can be almost automatically transformed into facts of urban geography by the nomenklatura, the elites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

The only cars that could be seen were the long ZIM or ZIS autos, looking like the Buicks of the time, driven by chauffeurs of the nomenklatura.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chauffeurs for Pols, No Cars for Us?] Reference

Interesting to see if one of the NuLabour nomenklatura ends up on the wrong end of the current extradition on demand arrangements to the US of A. Oscar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference

We overdo it, hoping people are going to notice, not many things in Moscow that'll give you status unless you're in the nomenklatura and then you'd be in a Zil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quiller Meridian]

When we terminated the state monopoly that controlled the importation of newsprint, an additional source of control by our own country's nomenklatura was eliminated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Exile Speaks Out] Reference

Unlike her dowdy (or invisible) predecessors, she stood at her husband's side publicly -- in furs and flaming red hair -- to the deep resentment of the gray nomenklatura.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

"Conversely, imposing collective guilt on what the Czechss call the ` nomenklatura ', the officials of the old regime, effectively translates into society's collective innocence.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference