glasnost
Example Sentences
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It was the era of glasnost and perestroika.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024
Formally registered in 1989 in the years of glasnost under Mikhail Gorbachev, Memorial has made it its mission to preserve the memory of Joseph Stalin’s repressions and to defend human rights today.
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 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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