I remember reading** an account of an exchange of letters between a local party member and a party apparatchik.

The 1% will always be there, whether they are party apparatchiks or senior bankers.

But at least in this case, they found a common bond: bashing party apparatchiks.

Now he seems to know that his reforms can succeed only if the party apparatchiks yield up their stifling power.

The key date for seasoned party apparatchiks, however, is today.

From 1945 he served as a party apparatchik in Latvia.

Partly because he came to power as a party apparatchik, not a politician, he never learned the art of compromise, say friends and analysts.

But some party apparatchiks in the crowd were snickering that their chairman was like the emperor with no clothes.

Mikhail Gorbachev seized on elections as a stick with which to beat recalcitrant party apparatchiks.

As for her poor showing in the election for the central committee, she said: "There was a campaign against me by the party apparatchiks.