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 ...

"But if I had had no trust in the people, perestroika would have never begun," he said. The full interview with the USSR’s first and last president, Mikhail Gorbachev, dedicated to his 90th ...

Gorbachev said the West insists in describing ... and instigator of the “perestroika” reforms, the main challenge facing the world is the fact that the five leading nations, which acknowledge ...

Perestroika, of course ... and Vitaly Mansky and also the Theater of Nations’ stage production called Gorbachev. Have you seen them? How does it feel to be in focus as a literary or film ...

The last president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and father of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 91. “This afternoon, after a long and ...

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 ...

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 his book Perestroika, Gorbachev proclaims to the world his belief in “the priority of interests common to all humanity over class interests.” This phrase reveals the thoroughly bourgeois ...

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Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of Soviet Union and ‘perestroika’ reform efforts, dies at 91 As leader of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Gorbachev introduced a policy of greater transparency of ...

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 ...