ABSTRACT
With reference to the comparison of Western and Eastern industrialization, the author's thesis is that autocratic manipulation by the minority becomes less important to the degree that the majority are ready to comply with commands and to implement instructions with judgment and a sustained work effort. This chapter is concerned with trust or distrust between the minority and the majority, as this aspect of authority relations has developed in Western and Eastern Europe. In Western Europe, 200 years of moral and religious education had passed before technology and the administrative organization of enterprises began to make unprecedented demands on the discipline of the individual worker. In Russia, the mass education of workers only began with the development of large-scale industry. The social differences between managers and workers are disguised symbolically by the subordination of superiors and the superordination of subordinates, provided party functionaries supervise both subordination and superordination.
