ABSTRACT
Political scientists have long maintained that the process of "political socialization" is indispensable for the establishment and maintenance of a societal system and its institutions. Problems in economic and political performance may be related to the stubborn remnants of "old" values in the population, but they may also stem from "contradictions under socialism." The process of national liberation, which culminated in the 1850's, could be expected to enhance the process of bonding, insofar as the new political elites were at least Romanian rather than foreign. The blend of Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy and personalized views which characterize "Ceausescuism" has produced a regime effort of political indoctrination and socialization unknown elsewhere in Eastern Europe. From the first and second-level propositions about society and the relationship between the individual and the collectivity come specific manifestations of socialization and indoctrination behavior. The political socialization effort is only feasible by constructing and utilizing a vast organizational network of socialization agents.
