Perestroika

Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)

Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)

Perestroika ( ; ) was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s, widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his ("transparency") policy reform. literally means "restructuring", referring to the restructuring of the political economy of the Soviet Union in an attempt to end the Era of Stagnation.

Glasnost ( ; , ) is a concept relating to openness and transparency. It has several general and specific meanings, including a policy of maximum openness in the activities of state institutions and freedom of information and the inadmissibility of hushing up problems. In Russian, the word glasnost has long been used to mean 'openness' and 'transparency'. In the mid-1980s, it was popularised by Mikhail Gorbachev as a political slogan for increased government transparency in the Soviet Union within the framework of perestroika, and the word came to be used in English in the latter meaning.

arms control agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union

events leading up to the end of Soviet rule in the Baltic nations

song composed and written by Klaus Meine and originally recorded by Scorpions and released in 1990

Head of State of the Soviet Union between 1990 and 1991

Soviet diplomat (1923-2005)

1991 treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the reduction of strategic offensive arms

referendum regarding the dissolution of the Soviet Union

Government organization in USSR in 1991

draft treaty of 1991

government body in the Soviet Union

1988 film by Vasili Pichul

military unit

final phase of the Soviet–Afghan War

Soviet annd Russian economist

legislative election in the Soviet Union

series of sovereignty declarations by Soviet Union constituents, late 1980s — early 1990s

former legislature of Russia

music festival

Final Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

1989 song by Kino

Uskorenie (; literally meaning acceleration) was a slogan and a policy announced by Communist Party General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev on 20 April 1985 at a Soviet Party Plenum, aimed at the acceleration of political, social and economic development of the Soviet Union. It was the first slogan of a set of reforms that also included (restructuring), (transparency), new political thinking, and (democratization).

legislative election in Russia, Soviet Union

late 1980s foreign policy philosophy of the Soviet Union

1970s–1989 corruption scandal in Soviet Uzbekistan

National referendum on Russian President election method

1991 executive body in the Eurasian state

1988 Soviet Union Communist Party conference

Anti-alcohol campaigns in Russia

Russian economist (1934–1997)

1987 political slogan from Mikhail Gorbachev

1987 television programme

1989 language law of Ukraine

legal parliamentary opposition in the Soviet Union