Complex sentence: The Russian term nomenklatura ("номенклату́ра "), derived from the Latin"nomenclatura" meaning a list of names, was originally the list of higher responsibility positions or jobs whose occupants needed to be approved by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Split into simpler sentences: The Russian term "nomenklatura" ("номенклату́ра ") derived from the Latin"nomenclatura" meaning a list of names. It was originally the list of higher responsibility positions or jobs whose occupants needed to be approved by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.