apparat
/ˌapəˈrɑːt
/noun [in singular] chiefly historical
The administrative system of a communist party, especially in a communist country: figurative the ecclesiastical apparat...
- But, even when staffed by people with little or no experience in the Communist Party apparat or Soviet state, the new executive institutions bore the unmistakable stamp of the Soviet epoch, and even of the tsarist period.
- There is no need of a monolithic party if the effective apparat is in general agreement, makes the same assumptions.
- Thus it became accepted practice for the party apparat to direct particular members to particular tasks, to appoint and dismiss, without discussion or appeal.
Origin
Russian, from German, literally 'apparatus'.