glasnost
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It was the era of glasnost and perestroika.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024
By that time, Khrushchev had been dead for 19 years, and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev had ushered in a period of glasnost, or openness.
From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023
Mikhail Gorbachev’s efforts to strengthen the Soviet Union through perestroika and glasnost proved unsuccessful.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
The collapse of the Soviet Union was not the only result of Mr. Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika.
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 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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