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Glasnost & Perestroika
Glasnost and Perestroika were prominent words especially
during the years from 1985 to 1991.
PRONOUNCE GLASNOST
Glasnost, meaning openness,
was a political course of action practiced and promoted in the
Soviet Union by
Mikhail Gorbachev.
People were now allowed to openly
discuss and criticize their government. Also, other countries that
used to be enemies of the Soviet Union during the
Cold War
were now approached differently.
PRONOUNCE PERESTROIKA
Tied together with glasnost was
perestroika, which means restructuring.
Perestroika describes the many political and economic reforms that
followed.
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