: 77, 117

Shehu, Mehmet (Prime Minister): 1, 22, 77, 84, 88, 90, 92, 103, 104, 105,
111, 116, 122

Shehu (Mehmet) Military Academy: 187

Shijak: airbase, 184

Shijaku, S. (artist): 143

shipping: 47

Shkoder (city):
population, 51, 57;
theater, 140

Siliqi, Llazar (poet): 140

Skanderbeg (national hero): 5, 10, 12, 138, 175, 177

Skanderbeg military school: 186

Skenderi, Vehbi (poet): 140

social insurance, 63-64
society (_see also_ authority, divorce, elite, family, marriage, peasants,
tribes and clans, women, youth):
character of, 1-7;
under communism, 68, 73-83;
structure, 67-102;
traditional patterns and values, 67, 69-73;
by type of employment, 76 (table 4)

soils: 26, 41

Soviet Union:
aid, economic, 7, 122, 141, 154, 169, 170;
aid, military, 175, 176, 179, 183, 184, 192;
break with, 122;
debt to, 170;
de-Stalinization campaign repercussions, 21;
education and training in, 61, 87, 91;
farm model, 153;
relations with, v, 2, 3, 21, 23, 104, 112, 121, 122, 123;
trade, 172

Spahiu, Xhafer (Politburo secretary): 111

Stalin, Joseph V.: 19, 22, 121, 122, 140, 142, 192, 193

Stalin (formerly Kucove): pipeline from, 44, 46

Stalin-Tito rupture: 21

standard of living: 7, 49-50, 58

state farms: 146, 151, 153;
labor force size, 147;
number and size, 154;
private plots, 154, 157, 159, 166

State Planning Commission: 58, 146, 150

State University of Tirana:
enrollment, 91;
established, 137-38;
Faculty of Jurisprudence, 74;
Faculty of Medicine, 61;
Library, 135;
Linguistics and History Institute, 56;
paramilitary training, 188

status: social mobility, 69

steel-rolling mill: 160

Stratoberdha, Llazi (Directorate head): 112

sugar beets: 151, 155, 156 (table 10)

sugar mill: 159

summary: vii-ix

Sunni (religious group): 97, 98

Tashko, Koco (former Party Leader): 23

Tashko, Tefta (singer): 142

taxes: 164, 165-66;
and property confiscation, 20;
turnover tax, 165, 166

teachers:
number of, 91, 92 (table 5);
Party membership, 94;
training, 83, 87

television: 125, 133

temperature: 36 (table 1)

Tepelena, Ali Pasha (Lion of Yannina): 13

textbooks: 86, 87

textiles:
mills, 159, 160;
production, 163, (table 12)

theater: 140-41

Tirana (capital city):
airbase, xiv (fig. 1), 184;
description,