glasnost
Example Sentences
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It was the era of glasnost and perestroika.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024
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
As part of his reform efforts, Gorbachev also encouraged glasnost or openness, allowing those who were angry to be critical of the government.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Those favorable impressions also derived from a misunderstanding of the purpose of glasnost and perestroika, his signature policies of openness and reform.
From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2022
He also ushered in the age of glasnost, or "openness," allowing for erstwhile unimaginable freedoms in what had for generations been a rigidly totalitarian state.
From Salon • Aug. 31, 2022
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