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as an integrating device for Soviety society by permitting the release of system-induced tensions and concomitant diminution of personal resentment, by increasing the sense of mass participation and by simultaneously acting as an additional control on the mas-sive Soviet bureaucracy, they become one factor among the myriad to be weighed in assessing the continued effective functioning of the Soviet system.
Marvin B. Sussman (Sun,) studied this question.