Glasnost
Glasnost (Russian: гла́сность, IPA: [ˈɡlasnəsʲtʲ] ( listen), lit. “publicity”) was a policy that called for increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet...
View ArticleMikhail Gorbachev: An Accidental Hero
Twenty years after the wall fell, Mikhail Gorbachev is quietly celebrated in the west, but shunned in Moscow. Yet in both places his reputation rests on his failure to reform the dying system in which...
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