A communist who was a member of the administrative system of a communist party WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

An apparatchik was a full-time, professional functionary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union or the Soviet government apparat, someone who held any position of bureaucratic or political responsibility, with the exception of the higher ranks of management called nomenklatura. Wikipedia

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Professional functionary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Wikidata