play Perestroika and glasnost: Gorbachev's reforms Gorbachev's two main reform ideas are perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness). Gorbachev announces reform plans to increase liberty ...

Gorbachev initiated a twin policy of limited expansion of domestic freedoms (glasnost) and economic reforms (perestroika). The central aim of the section of the bureaucracy led by Gorbachev was to ...