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glasnost
glasnost (Rus. ‘openness’) Term adopted (1986) by Mikhail
Gorbachev to refer to the adoption of a more liberal social policy. One result was widespread criticism of the Soviet system and the
Communist Party, leading to the break-up of the
Soviet Union. See also
Perestroika
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Gorbachev's Glasnost: The Soviet Media in the First Phase of Perestroika
Magazine article from: Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Gorbachev's Glasnost: The Soviet Media in the First Phase...Press,1999. 747 pp. $27.95 hbk. Glasnost was never meant to produce the Soviet...independent media system. In Gorbachev's Glasnost, Joseph Gibbs explains that although...
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Glasnost just more of same old Leninism
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/22/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...and comparably dramatic development on the glasnost front. It was reported that glasnost has a glittering pedigree: V. I. Lenin loved it. It seems Lenin used the word "glasnost," meaning openness, 46 times. That is not...
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`Glasnost': What's in A Word?
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/19/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...openness"-to the point of making glasnost one of those few Russian words that...Czechoslovakia in 1983-86, translates glasnost as "public airing," footnoting...follows: "One equivalent in Czech to glasnost seems to be hlasitost, which means...
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Glasnost Magazine's Connection to the West
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/9/1988; 650 words
; As the publishers of Glasnost magazine in the United States, we...which he accused the Moscow editor of Glasnost, Sergei Grigoryants, of receiving...the truth. So far, our support of Glasnost magazine in Moscow has been limited...
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`Glasnost': Lenin Loved It Too
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/22/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...there wasa third and comparably dramatic development on the glasnost front. It was reportedthat glasnost has a glittering pedigree: Lenin loved it. It seems Lenin used the word "glasnost," meaning openness, 46 times. That is not a promiscuous...
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Street Rallies Give Glasnost Fresh Image; Repression Shadows Soviets' Complaints
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/12/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or general openness. Until recently, signs of glasnost here were limited to exposes and criticism...prisoners launched a new club, called Glasnost. Opening a living room in Moscow to all...
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Soviet Activists Test Glasnost With New Journal
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/4/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...issue of an independent journal called Glasnost, putting Kremlin leader Mikhail Gorbachev...two-page lead editorial, the goal of Glasnost is to help "stimulate the development...planning an informal club, also called Glasnost, where copies of the journal will be...
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GLOSSARY: 'GLASNOST'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/25/1987; 683 words
; ...definition. That moment may have arrived for "glasnost." The word began appearing in American...s Russian Research Center, wrote that "glasnost is the hallmark of the Gorbachev era. Glasnost means agreement to discuss in public the...
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Glasnost
Newspaper article from: Bristol Evening Post; 7/26/2003; 700+ words
; Glasnost 1 William Street, Totterdown, Bristol...The above dish is a main course at Glasnost, the neighbourhood eatery in Totterdown...torrent of correspondence from outraged Glasnost fans, the like of which I can't recall...
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Glasnost suffers its first McCrisis - and we can help out
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/28/1988; ; 700+ words
; If this is glasnost, it must not be Belgrade. It's a pity that on the very eve of...the first failure of First Commie Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost. Glasnost, as we all know, is Mr. Gorbachev's effort to instill more...
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Glasnost
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
GLASNOST Glasnost is a Russian word that proved fateful for the Soviet communist empire...the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev introduced glasnost as one of a troika of slogans in his campaign to reform a faltering...
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glasnost
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
glasnost , Soviet cultural and social policy of the...historical problems. The policy was termed glasnost [openness]. The brutality of the Stalin...and V. H. Winston, ed., Milestones in Glasnost and Perestroyka (1991).
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glasnost and perestroika
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
glasnost and perestroika The concepts of ‘openness’ and ‘restructuring’ whose effects led to...
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Chernukha
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...naturalism and muckraking during and after glasnost. Chernukha is a slang term popularized...the hallmarks of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost was the open discussion of the misery...general critical thrust of chernukha in the glasnost era. Often condemned by critics across...
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Perestroika
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...from the Marxist-Leninist lexicon as glasnost (openness, transparency), pravovoe...not least because of its embrace of glasnost — opened the way for real political...book, Perestroika, Gorbachev wrote: "Glasnost, criticism and self-criticism are...
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