Stalinism is a more or less thin cover for class rule by party and state nomenklatura, though at times when connected with recent revolutionary activity it has produced liberatory ideas (Milovan Djilas, Imre Nagy (and his «co-conspirators»), Alexander Dubček). (politics.stackexchange.com)
It's as if the Democrats have created a privileged class of Americans — akin to the old Soviet nomenklatura — consisting of public employees who are insulated from the normal perils and pains to which ordinary citizens are exposed. (educationnext.org)
So the old Soviet model of the nomenklatura communist bureaucrats getting rich while the rest of the country declines is still in place. (cnbc.com)