ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a picture of why people turned against the regime and why workers turned against their unions. Two relatively good harvests had taken place and there was an abundant food supply, but the peasants were screaming for more consumer goods. They were refusing to market their produce and threatening to reduce their output. The workers had to have low food prices. Some workers and peasants who were dissatisfied were loyal, and some privileged individuals were not politically loyal. Workers and peasants, formerly oppressed by rigidly drawn class lines, had an opportunity to rise depending upon their abilities or willingness to join the Party. Some aspects of the problems were due to exogenous factors that had a logic of their own and developed willy-nilly, but most of the problems can be attributed to the Party's insistence on doing things its own way.
