glasnost

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Meaning

a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems

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Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management. Mikhail Gorbachev

Aims and results of Gorbachev's glasnost Gorbachev's original goal of using glasnost and perestroika to reform the Soviet Union while maintaining control by the Communist Party was not achieved. Source: Internet

Also, the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 added motive force to Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms, which eventually spiraled out of control and caused the Soviet system to collapse. Source: Internet

As a result, at the start of the Mikhail Gorbachev reforms perebudova and hlasnist’ (Ukrainian for perestroika and glasnost), Ukraine under Shcherbytsky was slower to liberalize than Russia itself. Source: Internet

Emboldened by the liberalized atmosphere of glasnost, public dissatisfaction with economic conditions was much more overt than ever before in the Soviet period. Source: Internet

Gorbachev maintained that perestroika without glasnost was doomed to failure anyway. Source: Internet

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