): 117

gas: reserves, 44

Geg (language): 56, 137

Gega, Lira (former Politburo member): 22

Gegs (ethnic group): 6;
ethnic characteristics, 53;
population, 52;
social structure, 70-72

Germany: resistance to occupation by, 179

Germany, East: aid and trade, 170, 172

Gjata, Fatmir (writer): 140

glossary: 209

government:
appointment of officials, 116;
character of, 1, 103, 104, 108;
local, 106-07;
Party control of, 103, 104, 106;
structure, 104-07;
summary, vii

grain: bread grain production, 151, 155, 156 (table 10)

Great Britain: 178

Greece:
Albanians living in, 55;
boundary claim, 14, 26;
relations with, 9, 123;
shared border, 25, 31, 32;
trade, 173

Greeks (ethnic group): 54

gross industrial product (GIP): minerals share, 44

gross national product (GNP): per capita, 50

Gypsies: 54, 55

harbors: 183

Hasbiu, Gen. Kadri: 77, 111, 193

Hasko, Arif (air force chief): 184

health and medicine:
facilities, 61;
military medicine, 187;
mobile medical teams and equipment, 61;
personnel and training, 61;
services, 58;
status of, 6, 50, 59-62;
summary, viii

history: 9-23

Hitler, Adolf: 17

holidays: 10, 78

hospitals: 61

houses: description, 63

housing:
investment, 167;
loans, 169;
status, 51, 62-63

Hoxha, Enver (Party first secretary): 1, 3, 11, 17-23
_passim_, 53, 62, 77, 80, 84, 88, 100-05
_passim_, 111, 115-27
_passim_, 136, 142;
relation to defense establishment, 180;
relation to security police, 193;
rise to leadership, 179

Hoxha (Enver) United Army Officers School: 186

Hoxha, Nexhmije (Party official): 77, 93, 112, 117

Hoxha-Shehu duumvirate: overthrow attempt, 22

Hungary: 172

Hunyadi (Hungarian king): 12

hydroelectric power:
potential, 40, 162, 163;
station, 159, 160, 164

identification cards: 195

illiteracy: 7, 86, 94, 126

imports: viii, 172, 173

income:
collective farm workers, 153-54;
national, major source, 7;
taxes, 165

independence: 2, 3, 9, 10, 13-16, 139, 176, 177;
proclaimed, 14

indoctrination: political and social, 69, 126, 135, 140, 147, 185-86, 190

industry: 146, 159-64;
budgetary expenditures, 166, 167;
construction projects, 159, 160;
deterrents to development, 161;
exports, 161, 162, 174;
five-year plans, 159, 164,170;
imports,