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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In others Communist apparatchiks remade themselves as nationalist autocrats, and stifled democracy in its crib.
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It is also very hard for apparatchiks at the grassroots of the party to understand.
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Sophiatown itself-erased by the brutal apparatchiks of apartheid in 1955-is as much the protagonist as the suit.
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The extremism of the antagonistic, Western, post-Stalinist critic is mirrored in the extremism of the sycophantic Stalinist party apparatchik .
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The key date for seasoned party apparatchiks, however, is today.
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The offices were small, and apparatchiks scuttled round between rooms.
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The Praga became a favoured haunt for upwardly mobile apparatchiks, visiting VIPs and wedding parties.
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When an apparatchik dies, his family can request a plot in one of several Moscow cemeteries informally reserved for the elite.