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 ...

Perestroika, of course ... and Vitaly Mansky and also the Theater of Nations’ stage production called Gorbachev. Have you seen them? How does it feel to be in focus as a literary or film ...

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 ...

The last president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and father of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 91. “This afternoon, after a long and ...

But without glasnost nothing would have changed in the country," Gorbachev told TASS in an ... "But if I had had no trust in the people, perestroika would have never begun," he said.

The significance of Gorbachev’s glasnost cannot be appraised without examining the socioeconomic content of perestroika. Renegades from Marxism, like G. Healy, do not bother themselves with such ...

In the interview, Gorbachev said Novaya Gazeta was the manifestation of his glasnost policy of information disclosure, which was promoted as part of perestroika. That background goes a long way in ...

He and U.S. President Ronald Reagan joined in successful disarmament talks, and Gorbachev’s policies of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (openness) introduced unprecedented freedoms of ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of Soviet Union and ‘perestroika’ reform efforts, dies at 91 As leader of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Gorbachev introduced a policy of greater transparency of ...

The release of Sakharov and his wife, Elena Bonner, was part of Gorbachev’s broader efforts to implement glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring), signaling a shift toward political ...