Associations to the word «Apparatchik»

Wiktionary

APPARATCHIK, noun. (historical) A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent. [from 20th c.]
APPARATCHIK, noun. A blindly loyal bureaucrat. [from 20th c.]

Dictionary definition

APPARATCHIK, noun. A humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organization (especially a political organization); "Democratic apparatchiks".
APPARATCHIK, noun. A communist who was a member of the administrative system of a communist party.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King