glasnost

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It was the era of glasnost and perestroika.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024

This proved effective in sparking Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's social and political reforms of the late 1980s, best known by the Russian word "glasnost," or "openness."

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2023

He was 91 and had largely been out of circulation since his power slipped away after the heady Soviet years of glasnost and perestroika.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2022

Mikhail Gorbachev’s efforts to strengthen the Soviet Union through perestroika and glasnost proved unsuccessful.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

The old system — the party and state that shaped his life and that he had led to glasnost and perestroika — was now dead.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2022