`Glasnost': Lenin Loved It Too

The Washington Post | March 22, 1987| | Copyright

On the same recent day a Soviet official acknowledged what the world has long known-that the Soviet Union has chemical weapons-and a Soviet agency acknowledged what no one ever doubted-that there is inflation in the Soviet economy-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 use when spread through 55 volumes of his writings, and some uses are of almost Delphic inscrutability: "Glasnost is a ...

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