‖ apparat
(æpəˈrɑːt)
[Russ., a. Ger. apparat apparatus, instrument, f. L. apparātus apparatus.]
The party machine of the Communist party in Russia, etc. Also attrib.
| 1950 A. Koestler God that Failed i. i. 46, I found Communist apparat-work much less efficient than its scared opponents presume. 1952 ― Arrow in Blue xxviii. 262 This is true not only of members of the ‘Apparat’ but of militant Communists in general. 1955 H. Hodgkinson Doubletalk 14 Apparat, the administrative apparatus, usually of State or Party; the ‘Party machine’. 1960 Encounter Mar. 69/1 The dead-weight of a clumsy bureaucratic Apparat having been disposed of, a fresh team of leaders..succeeded in tackling the reconstruction of the intellectual formulation of Social Democratic policy [in E. Germany]. |