Meaning Of The Word Glasnost

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glasnost
uncountable noun: Glasnost is a policy of making a government more open and democratic. The word glasnost was originally used to describe the policies of President Gorbachev in the former Soviet Union in the 1980s.

glasnost in American English
the Soviet policy of the 1980s of publicly acknowledging the nation's social and economic problems and of allowing open discussion of them
noun: the declared public policy within the Soviet Union of openly and frankly discussing economic and political realities: initiated under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985

glasnost in British English
noun: the policy of public frankness and accountability developed in the former Soviet Union under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev

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