MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The Soviet Union’s first president, Mikhail Gorbachev, has said that the policy of glasnost was crucial to reforms in the Soviet Union. "I am also scolded for glasnost.

At that time, the Communist Party was in the middle of Mikhail Gorbachev’s campaign of glasnost, or “openness.” As the authorities relaxed controls on information, previously unmentionable s ...

- What is your biggest achievement in life? - Perestroika, of course, and everything that goes with it. It is my profound conviction that perestroika was necessary, and that we were moving in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...