glasnost

How To Use glasnost In A Sentence

• In recent months, the president explained, we had been hearing a great deal from the Soviet Union about a new policy of glasnost or openness.
• At the time of glasnost and perestroika, the emerging leaders belonged to the writers union.
• To restructure the Soviet economy before it collapsed, Gorbachev announced an agenda of rapid reform, based upon what he called perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost WN.com - Articles related to Iran's June inflation rate falls to 9.4%
• On his return to Moscow, he became the father of glasnost, a member of the Politburo and one of the most efficient demolishers of Bolshevism from within.
• Painfully aware of the contradiction between the policy of glasnost and the party's handling of the Chernobyl crisis, Gorbachev at last acted.
• The usual translation of 'glasnost' is 'openness'.
• But the end of the Cold War and the Fall of the Berlin Wall was a direct result of a new more openminded Soviet leader, a collapsing soviet econmy, a persistant US president/administration and the desire for freedom from the people living behind that wall (glasnost, perestroika) John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
• Four years after Glasnost was adopted, the inflow of information revolutionized the climate of Soviet public opinion.
• Although a committed communist, he sought to revive the ailing Soviet economy by introducing some elements of capitalist competition (a policy he called perestroika, or “restructuring”) and to encourage free expression by a policy of glasnost. Gorbachev, Mikhail
• Official records, opened in 1990 when glasnost was still in vogue, show that Stalin had every intention of treating the Poles as political prisoners.