ABSTRACT
More significant were the changes gathering momentum from 1948 onwards when political power in the government was definitively secured by the Communist Party. Considering the cramped conditions, the variety of jobs done simultaneously and the speed required - it all has to be done within one day - the high level of coordination bears witness to the well-worn technical and social traditional grooves. The traditional values and organizing principles of social relations are only one among competing alternative frames of reference. In the past, for the majority, the traditional paradigm was the only one available. Movement out of the traditional peasant paradigm was only possible by emigration or leaving permanently for town and working in industry. The existence of the traditional paradigm is, therefore, both elusive and very real; it has tenuous legitimacy vis-à-vis the formal socialist economic and social institutions, yet it both impinges on and flows into them through countless channels.
