group: 3, 17, 18, 33, 49, 50-52, 52-53, 55, 57, 143;
history, 13-14

Romanian Foreign Trade Bank: 242, 243, 244, 247

Romanian language: vii, 2, 4, 11, 14, 51, 54, 67, 75, 83, 103, 104, 209

Romanian Orthodox Church (_see also_ church-state relations; clergy
religion): viii, 4, 65, 67-69

Romanian People's Army. See armed forces

Romanian People's Republic: v, vii, 5, 24, 110, 111, 131

Romanian Press Agency (Agentia Romana de Presa, Agerpres): 181, 182

Romanian Workers' Party: 23, 27, 111, 112, 130, 137, 142

Romans and the Roman Empire: 3, 10-11, 14, 50, 67, 91, 99

rural society (_see also_ villages): 38, 41, 57, 62, 65, 68, 79, 87,
153, 154, 183, 187, 264;
population, 17, 52, 53

Russia (_see also_ Soviet Union): history, 2, 9, 15, 16, 18, 37, 54;
revolution, 19, 37

Russian language: 2, 27, 83, 181

Sadoveanu, Mihail: 106

sanitation: 42

Sarmizegetusa: 99

Savings and Loan Bank: 242, 244, 245

schools (_see also_ education; religion; students; universities): 2, 14,
27, 53, 54, 57, 65, 73, 74, 75, 77, 80, 81, 82, 83-88, 89, 97, 104,
148, 200, 201, 204

_Scinteia_: 178, 179

_Scinteia Tineretului_: 178-180

sculpture: 98

security (_see also_ crime; defence; police): 133, 139;
internal, 116, 120, 193-201;
national, ix, 20

security troops: 193, 194, 197-198, 203, 206, 219

services: 232, 239

Sibu: 53

Sighisoara: 53

Sino-Soviet issue: v, 1, 27, 158, 164, 166, 167

Siretul River: 30, 31, 41

size and location (_see also_ boundaries): vii, xiv, 3, 29, 32

Slavs: 2, 4, 9, 11, 12, 49, 51, 55, 127, 151;
language and culture, 50, 51, 67

social benefits: 88, 260, 262

Social Democratic Party: 19, 22, 23, 137, 142

social structure: 6, 17, 58-62

socialism (_see also_ collective farms; nationalization; Socialist
Realism): v, 5, 73, 105, 151-153, 154, 198, 207, 230, 240

Socialist Party: 142

Socialist Realism: 7, 92, 93, 106

Socialist Republic of Romania: v, vii, 1, 3, 5, 28, 66, 113, 131

Socialist Unity Front: 126, 127, 135, 151, 177, 198

soils: 29, 35-36, 253, 254

Soviet Union (_see also_ Czechoslovakia; Sino-Soviet issue): 22, 23, 33,
34, 37, 54, 131, 159, 163, 164-165, 167, 172, 182, 199, 212, 216,
218, 223, 224, 275, 279;
border, vii, xiv, 10, 29, 46, 217;
Communist Party, 137, 156, 166;
Constitution (1936), 5, 111;
independence of, 1-2, 3, 5, 8, 25, 2