ABSTRACT
Marxist ideology postulates that there will be no social deviance in Communist society, that deviant behavior will disappear with the termination of the exploitation and alienation of man that characterize capitalism, and with the termination of the lag in social consciousness of the individual that characterizes socialism. In order to look as objectively as possible at social deviance in Eastern Europe, it is necessary first to try to establish a general theoretical framework within which the phenomenon of social deviance can be examined. Technical expediency rather than cultural legitimacy comes to govern decisions as to means, social deviance increases, and society begins to destabilize as it heads toward normlessness. The nature of political socialization and resocialization in postrevolutionary Eastern Europe has been examined elsewhere, as have the themes, stages, and formal and informal agencies of socialization in Communist societies.
