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His reforms — glasnost and perestroika — were designed to revitalize the Soviet economy and legitimize the rule of the Soviet Communist Party.

It will be interesting to witness the successful implementation of Sri Lanka’s version of AKD’s “Glasnost and Perestroika,” especially since the originator of this concept, former Soviet leader ...

Perestroika was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the late 1980s widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost policy reform.

Every republic and city and town saw energetic campaigns for election of people’s deputies, a real battle between the old party nomenklatura and new people, the people of Gorbachev’s perestroika.

The momentous era of ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who has died aged 91, was often defined by buzzwords and slogans.

Putin has slowly and methodically walked back General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev’s policies of glastnost and perestroika which directly contributed to the fall of the U.S.S.R.

How were Gorbachev’s reforms — glasnost and perestroika — carried out in Tajikistan? What were some of the initial economic and political consequences of the reforms?

Glasnost, Gorbachev’s hazy theory, led inevitably to perestroika, or restructuring: democracy and economic modernization. But be careful, he often reminded his detractors, such as the dissident Andrei ...

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV’S death has prompted a torrent of commentary confirming the old adage that “the history we write tells more about the present than the past.” Some pay fitting tribute to ...

Mikhail Gorbachev: The village boy whose democratic instinct and abhorrence of nuclear weapons changed the 20th century By instituting glasnost and perestroika, a series of reforms, Gorbachev ...