Policy of openness under Gorbachev

• Gorbachev's "openness"
• Part of the '80s "demokratizatsiya" program
• What provides transparency, hiding no secret, ultimately?
• 1980s social policy
• A policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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, ...

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

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ 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 ...