This is taken from the famous ‘Gorbachev thesis’ propounded in the Report of the Central Committee of the USSR on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the Great October Revolution.
2.
Ibid.
3.
GorbachevMikhail, Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and The World (London: Collins, 1987).
4.
Ibid.
5.
See in particular ‘On Humane Governance’, Alternatives, Vol. XII, No. 3, July 1987. This and other related essays have been published in State against Democracy: In Search of Humane Governance and Transformation and Survival: In Search of Humane World Order (New Delhi: Ajanta Publications, 1988).
6.
I discussed in some detail in my Fulbright Memorial Lecture, ‘Democracy in the Third World', delivered at Princeton University in 1987 and published in State Against Democracy: In Search of Humane Governance, op. cit.
