nomenklatura

noun2

1. •
   A list of bureaucratic posts in government and industry in the former Soviet Union and other communist countries, filled by those appointed by the Party.
2. •
   The people on such lists; (by extension), any privileged class, a social or political elite.

   • Communism envisioned […] an Authority Ranking of political control (in theory, the dictatorship of the proletariat; in practice, a nomenklatura of commissars under a charismatic dictator). — 2011