Examples of “apparatchik” in a Sentence

noun An official serving the Soviet Communist Party or state machine.

• He rose through the ranks as a loyal apparatchik of the ruling party.
• Western journalists often described the official as a Kremlin apparatchik.
• The novel follows an aging apparatchik who fears losing his post.

noun A bureaucrat who is blindly loyal to a party or organization.

• Critics dismissed the new director as a party apparatchik with no ideas of his own.
• She refused to become a corporate apparatchik who simply followed orders.
• The committee was packed with apparatchiks who never questioned the leadership.