cadre

n.

1. A nucleus of trained personnel around which a larger organization can be built and trained: a cadre of corporals who train recruits.
2. 1. A tightly knit group of zealots who are active in advancing the interests of a revolutionary party.
   2. A member of such a group.
3. A framework.

[French, from Italian quadro, frame, from Latin quadrum, a square.]

The word cadre originally referred to ‘the permanent skeleton of a military unit, the commissioned and non-commissioned officers, etc., around whom the rank and file may be quickly grouped’ (Chambers Dictionary). Thence it was applied in Russia to ‘a cell of trained Communist leaders, or to a member of such a cell’.

The political use of this military term indicated the intention of the Leninist leadership of the Russian Revolution to create a disciplined, hierarchically organized, and swiftly responsive system of control of the revolutionary movement. The cadre system was also the embodiment of the ‘vanguard party’ which Lenin believed was made necessary by the inability of the working class to achieve class consciousness spontaneously. Cells were established in all neighbourhoods, work places, and social organizations, and their cadres owed their entire loyalty not to the members of the organization within which they worked, but to the Party cadres at the level above. The control from above of appointments and postings of the cadre force was the basis of Stalin's rise to power.

— Jack Gray

(kad-ree, kah-dray)

An elite or select group that forms the core of an organization and is capable of training new members.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - kadre, [mil] stampersonel

Nederlands (Dutch)
kader(lid), groep activisten

Français (French)
n. - (Mil) cadre, (Admin, Pol) noyau (d'hommes), (Pol) cadre

Deutsch (German)
n. - Kader

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - επιτελής, (βασικό/επίλεκτο) στέλεχος (κόμματος, στρατού), πυρήνας, επιτελείο επίλεκτων στελεχών

Italiano (Italian)
quadri, organico, cellula, membri di un organico

Português (Portuguese)
n. - estrutura (f), quadro (m) de oficiais militares

Русский (Russian)
кадровый состав

Español (Spanish)
n. - cuadro, grupo de oficiales, cuadrilla

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kader

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
骨架, 干部, 核心, 本部

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 骨架, 幹部, 核心, 本部

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 기초[공사], 줄거리, 간부

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 構造, 組織, 幹部, 中核

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مجموعه مدربه, ملاك الموظفين‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮סגל, גרעין צבאי, צוות מצומצם, מסגרת, קאדר‬

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