• Glasnost (/ˈɡlæznɒst/; Russian: гласность, IPA: [ˈɡlasnəsʲtʲ]) is a concept relating to openness and transparency. It has several general and specific...
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    widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "transparency") policy reform. The literal meaning of perestroika...
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  • The glasnost meeting (Russian: Ми́тинг гла́сности, romanized: Míting glásnosti, lit. 'meeting of openness'), also known as the glasnost rally, was the...
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  • Look up glasnost in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Glasnost refers to a 1980s Soviet policy that called for increased openness and transparency in government...
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  • Ecoglasnost (redirect from Eco-glasnost)
    the steering committee of Eco-glasnost. ... For the past 44 years, Bulgaria had been without political dissent. Eco-glasnost changed that. The group now...
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  • The Glasnost Bowl was a planned attempt to stage an American college football game in Moscow, USSR at the beginning of the 1989 season. The game was named...
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  • Glasnost Defense Foundation is a non-profit organization with the stated goals of the defense of journalists, journalism, and freedom of expression in...
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    Mikhail Gorbachev, sought to reform the country through his policies of glasnost and perestroika. In 1989, various countries of the Warsaw Pact overthrew...
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    termed the "godfather of glasnost", and was the intellectual force behind Mikhail Gorbachev's reform programme of glasnost and perestroika. Born into...
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    Art Organisations". This greatly stifled creativity. During the 1980s glasnost (openness) was introduced and Soviet artists and writers again became free...
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  • Glasnost is the second full-length album by Nottingham alternative metal band illuminatus. The album was released through Headroom Records on February...
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    November 1932" [Letter of the industrialists to Hindenburg, November 1932]. Glasnost–Archiv (in German). Retrieved 16 October 2011. Evans, Richard J. (22 June...
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    significantly implemented. Gorbachev also radically expanded the scope of glasnost and stated that no subject was off limits for open discussion in the media...
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    relatively more deaths from collectivization than any other. The early years of glasnost, in the late 1980s, had little effect on the political climate in Kyrgyzstan...
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    Revolution. During the Mikhail Gorbachev era in the Soviet Union under Glasnost, RFE/RL benefited significantly from the Soviet Union's new openness. Gorbachev...
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    1944–56. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0-7139-9868-9. Bacon, Edwin (1992). "Glasnost' and the Gulag: New Information on Soviet Forced Labour around World War...
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    early 1990s. Some historians have written that Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost" (political openness) was the root cause, noting that it weakened the party's...
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    decentralization reforms during the era of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (voice-ness, as freedom of speech) conducted by Mikhail Gorbachev as part...
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  • numbers of Gulag prisoners presented by Russian researchers during the glasnost period have been relatively widely accepted. ... It could, quite rightly...
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    Soviet democracy Marxism–Leninism Leninism Stalinism Khrushchevism De-Stalinization Perestroika Glasnost...
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    enact liberal reforms in the Soviet system, introduced the policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) in an attempt to end the period...
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    The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russian: Русская православная церковь, romanized: Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), alternatively...
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    Gorbachev insisted on urgently needed economic and political reforms called "glasnost" (openness) and "perestroika" (restructuring). At the 1987 Washington Summit...
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    Soviet democracy Marxism–Leninism Leninism Stalinism Khrushchevism De-Stalinization Perestroika Glasnost...
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    The history of the Jews in Russia and areas historically connected with it goes back at least 1,500 years. Jews in Russia have historically constituted...
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    limit nuclear weapons and end the Cold War. Domestically, his policy of glasnost ("openness") allowed for enhanced freedom of speech and press, while his...
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    funeral of Brezhnev 1982–1991: Decline and collapse Invasion of Grenada Glasnost Perestroika Chernobyl disaster Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan Singing...
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    Independent national politics made feasible with the perestroika and liberal glasnost policies revealed shortcomings and failures (i.e. of the soviet-type economic...
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    the time the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev initiated perestroika and glasnost, which weakened Soviet influence in Europe. In 1989 after the Pan-European...
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    became its leader. Gorbachev adopted glasnost (openness), political reform aimed at reducing censorship; before glasnost all reporting was directed by the...
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