ABSTRACT
From the very beginning of their activities, the aims of all East European Communist leaders included the creation of a "new socialist man." The cultural patterns that were about to be imposed upon the peoples of the region were so alien to their historical experiences that they could not be expected to embrace them wholeheartedly. In the early 1960s under Nikita Khrushchev's leadership, it seemed that the Soviet Russian leaders had learned from their mistakes and had taken the utter failure of their East European cultural policies to heart. The cultural policies of Gustav Husak and his followers were dictated by the needs of "normalization" and the needs of the Communist party to consolidate its hold on the population once again. In the late 1960s, the Albanian Communist party inaugurated an ideological and cultural revolution, intended to reflect a similar Chinese development.
