Reform in the Soviet Union

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.

economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who described it as a progression towards "state capitalism" within the workers' state of the USSR

draft treaty of 1991

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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).

1990 Soviet economic plan

late 1980s foreign policy philosophy of the Soviet Union

economic reform movement

1922–24 Soviet reform of the Armenian orthography

Khozraschyot (; short for , 'economic accounting') was an attempt to introduce capitalist concepts of profit and profit center into the planned economy of the Soviet Union. Khozraschyot introduced a certain degree of independence of enterprises (which continued to be state-owned and subject to state control) and allowed for self-management and self-financing within the framework of prices set by the Soviet government.

1987 political slogan from Mikhail Gorbachev

Belarusian orthography reform

attempt to partially decentralize planning in the Soviet economy

attempts to boost the Soviet economy