The nomenklatura were a small, elite subset of the general population in the Soviet Union who held various key administrative positions in all spheres of the Soviet Union: government, industry, agriculture, education, etc. The nomenklatura had more authority and claimed higher privileges of the same kind as the ruling class which Communist doctrine denounced in the Capitalist West. Without exception, they were members of the Communist Party. Some authors defined them as a new class. Trotskyists… (More on Nomenklatura)