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ca·dre (kä'drā, -drə, kăd'rē)  |
[French, from Italian quadro, frame, from Latin quadrum, a square.]
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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
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An elite or select group that forms the core of an organization and is capable of training new members.
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Cadre (pronounced /ˈkɑːdreɪ/, from the French) is the backbone of an organization, usually a political or military organization. The expression can be in the singular or the plural. Generally it is applied to a small core of committed and experienced people who are capable of providing leadership and of training newer members.
Because cadre are well developed in terms of knowledge, experience, and agreement with the organization's goals, they should be able to adapt and rebuild the organization's structure and ideological direction even if the organization has been weakened, through, for example, other members being killed or imprisoned. For professional revolutionaries the cadre consider themselves subject to the discipline and self-discipline of a political vanguard party model.
Radical Left movements in particular have maintained their minimum program of survival and growth very effectively through the strength of a cadre system. Basic success within a movement in which cadre are the vanguard comes when one core of cadre has gradually recruited and trained another group of cadre to ensure the perpetuation of the movement. This, in theory, both strengthens the movement politically and promotes a culture of emulation over that of competition. The drawback of the cadre system is the inevitable ossification of the ideology as competition is eliminated, and the cadre becoming a separate caste, "a state within a state".
The term is also commonly used in other venues to indicate an "original" or "leadership" group, i.e. the "first set" of users of a system who then will act as the seed-group who gain initial experience with a system, in order to facilitate its later use by a more general population. An example would be the "Initial Cadre" of pilots trained in a new airplane by the manufacturer, in advance of the more formal training that later pilots of the type might undergo at the airline, i.e. "users", level. The term in this case assumes that the group is able to explore a system and determine by experimentation what later standards will be used to train the follow-on users, and further connotates that the original group will then train the instructors who will then interface with the final users group. The term has the additional connotation of "initial" or "original".
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| Translations: Cadre |
Dansk (Danish)
n. - kadre, [mil] stampersonel
Nederlands (Dutch)
kader(lid), groep activisten
Français (French)
n. - (Mil) cadre, (Admin, Pol) noyau (d'hommes), (Pol) cadre
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
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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