Shortly after Gorbachev became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985, he ramped up talk about glasnost—meaning “openness,” particularly openness of ...

For while glasnost was envisioned by Gorbachev as a tool rather than an information free for all, it quickly took on a life of its own. The very journalists who had been appointed by the state ...

Gorbachev understood that perestroika needed to be predicated on glasnost, that effective economic reform depended on the freedom to criticize. These policies were the Soviet Union’s second ...

As Communist Party general secretary in the late 1980s, Gorbachev had advocated glasnost (openness) as a policy reform, and perestroika (reconstruction), a political movement for reform of Soviet ...

In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev set out to save the Soviet Union with bold reforms. Instead, he unleashed forces that would bring it to its knees. This is the story of Perestroika and Glasnost.

The momentous era of ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who has died aged 91, was often defined by buzzwords and slogans. From perestroika to glasnost to "Gorbymania", here are five of the best ...

How Gorbachev’s ‘perestroika’ vanished. ... from 1985 to 1991, through his signature policies of “glasnost” and “perestroika” had all been vanquished, ...

Countless words will be dedicated in the following days to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who died Aug. 30 at the age of 91. But throughout his obituaries, two specific words will likely be ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was only Soviet leader for a little over six years, from 1985 to 1991, but they were six years that changed both his country and the world. His policies of perestroika ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was only Soviet leader for a little over six years, from 1985 to 1991, but they were six years that changed both his country and the world. His policies of perestroika ...