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glasnost

[ glaz-nost, glahz‑; Russian glahs-nuhst ]

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noun

the declared public policy within the Soviet Union of openly and frankly discussing economic and political realities: initiated under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.

glasnost

/ ˈɡlæsˌnɒst /

the policy of public frankness and accountability developed in the former Soviet Union under the leadership of Mikhail gorbachev

glasnost

A Russian word meaning “openness,” which describes the policy of Mikhail Gorbachev , premier of the former Soviet Union . The term refers to a general loosening of government control on all aspects of life in the Soviet Union, even to the point of permitting criticism of government policies.

First recorded in 1980–85, glasnost is from the Russian word glásnost' literally, publicity (taken to mean openness)

C20: Russian, literally: openness

Of course, in Russia at that time you had just the beginning of Gorbachev, and glasnost and perestroika.

Still more excitingly for Cohen, glasnost included a Bukharin revival, with major support from Gorbachev himself.

Until virtually the day the Soviet empire collapsed, Rep. Dick Cheney was calling glasnost a fraud.

This scenario may sound like something from China or the pre-Glasnost communist bloc.

Technology will hopefully have made economic glasnost inevitable.

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