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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
glasnost
noun
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▪ Above all, though, glasnost and greater contact with the West have brought about a faitaccompli.
▪ Enter glasnost and perestroika, along with the issues of determining where they would lead, and how fast.
▪ Gorbachev was eager to meet with Reagan, as a part of his overall policy of glasnost, or openness.
▪ Had they been in vogue in 1951, the words perestroika and glasnost might have been used by observers.
▪ Not even glasnost and all its press conferences could change that.
▪ Supposing they are being formed into a new secret police - with the aim of destroying glasnost and perestroika?
▪ The charms of limitless glasnost have already worn distinctly thin.
▪ Until glasnost, unofficial art was so undocumented that information is still patchy and that which exists tends towards the polemical.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
glasnost

1972 (in reference to a letter of 1969 by Solzhenitsyn), from Russian glasnost "openness to public scrutiny," literally "publicity, fact of being public," ultimately from Old Church Slavonic glasu "voice," from PIE *gal-so-, from root *gal- (2) "to call, shout" (see call (v.)). First used in a socio-political sense by Lenin; popularized in English after Mikhail Gorbachev used it prominently in a speech of March 11, 1985, accepting the post of general secretary of the CPSU.\n\nThe Soviets, it seems, have rediscovered the value of Lenin's dictum that "glasnost," the Russian word for openness or publicity, is a desirable form of conduct.

[New York Times news service article, March 1981]

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glasnost

n. (context now historical English) 1980s policy of the Soviet Union under Gorbachev to allow more government transparency; often paired with perestroika

WordNet
glasnost

n. a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems

Wikipedia
Glasnost

In Russian language the word glasnost (, ) has several general and specific meanings. Its meaning "publicity" in the sense "the state of being open to public knowledge" has been used in Russian at least since the end of the 18th century. In the Russian Empire of the later 19th century the latter meaning was particularly associated with reforms of the judicial system, ensuring that the press and the public could attend court hearings and that the sentence was also read out in public. It was revived and made popular again in the 1980s by Mikhail Gorbachev as a slogan for increased government transparency.

Glasnost (album)

Glasnost is the second full-length album by Nottingham alternative metal band illuminatus. The album was released through Headroom Records on February 7, 2011. All songs were written by illuminatus, with all lyrics by Julio Taylor.

Glasnost (disambiguation)

Glasnost refers to a 1980s Soviet policy that called for increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities.

Glasnost may also refer to:

  • Glasnost (album), a 2011 album by alternative metal band Illuminatus
  • Glasnost The Game, a strategy board game
  • The Glasnost Bowl, an attempt in 1989 to schedule a U.S. college football game to be played in Moscow

Usage examples of "glasnost".

First employed, in tandem with the less-easily defined term glasnost, which can mean either 'openness' or 'publicity' depending upon the context, by spokespersons for the Soviet Kremlin during the latter half of the twentieth century, Old Calendar, to specify a vast and pervasive liberalization of a heretofore strictly hierarchized Soviet government.