Meaning of apparat | Babel Free

Definitions

The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.

Examples

“The second thing to absorb was that, behind all the spontaneity and eroticism and generalized “festival of the oppressed” merrymaking, a grim-faced Communist apparat was making preparations for an end to the revels and a serious seizure of the state.”

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