A survey of the attitudes of first generation Soviet workers on the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia demonstrates the significance of three social institutions - the Soviet army, the Communist party and closed enterprises - in adult socialization and in the production of strong support for the Soviet regime as a whole. The concept of `embeddedness in the regime', which refers to the number and strength of social ties between an individual (or a group) and the existing political regime, is suggested as an analytically useful concept in the analysis of Soviet society.
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