Category
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Glasnost
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.
Soviet dissidents
citizens of the Soviet Union who disagreed with the USSR's leaders

human rights movement in the Soviet Union
demokratizatsiya
1987 political slogan from Mikhail Gorbachev
Glasnost Meeting
1965 Soviet civil rights protest