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Glasnost

Gorbachev's policy of openness in public information and debate, from the mid-1980s.

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Dates
1985–1991
Also known as
Openness, Transparency
Over time
  1. Span 1985–1991
  2. led by Mikhail Gorbachev 1985–1991

Glasnost (“openness”) loosened censorship and allowed public criticism of the Soviet past, alongside Perestroika. Both were led by Mikhail Gorbachev.

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  1. 1985–1991 Glasnost
  2. 1985–1991 Mikhail Gorbachev leads Glasnost
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  1. Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, 1989 (Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
    Mikhail Gorbachev’s policies of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (transparency) further legitimized popular calls for reform from within.
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