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The rise of non-Leninist thinking about the political system / Archie Brown -- The rise of non-Leninist thinking on the economy / Alec Nove -- The development of Russian liberal thought since 1985 / Igor V. Timofeyev -- Transforming the 'national question' : new approaches to nationalism, federalism and sovereignty / Gail W. Lapidus -- The rise of new thinking on Soviet foreign policy / Alexander Dallin -- The development of new thinking about world communism / Alexander Dallin -- Some concluding observations / T. H. Rigby

Privatization and policies of economic liberalisation were hailed by many critics as key factors which would help lead Mexico towards a process of deeper democratization at the beginning of the 1980s. Using original research this book demonstrates that privatisation generated new resources which were used for personal benefit and also to lubricate the existing state-labour relationship. The case study at the heart of this book is the single most important privatization both in financial and political terms, the privatization of TELMEX, Mexico's national telecommunications monopoly, which occurred during the Salinas administration (1988-94), and the realities of the so-called democratic 'new unionism' movements led by the telephone workers' union.