University of Arizona professor John Willerton has taken to the pages of the online journal 19Fortyfive to rhapsodize about ...

Gorbachev initiated a twin policy of limited expansion of domestic freedoms (glasnost) and economic reforms (perestroika). The central aim of the section of the bureaucracy led by Gorbachev was to ...

In 1989, the Soviet army withdrew from Afghanistan after a ten-year losing battle with the Mujahedeen. Two years later, in ...

MOSCOW, March 1. /TASS/. The Soviet Union’s first president, Mikhail Gorbachev, has described perestroika as the greatest achievement of his life, for it helped abolish the totalitarian system.

The volume contained a comprehensive and politically devastating analysis of the program and actions of the regime of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union, as it moved toward the liquidation of ...

play Perestroika and glasnost: Gorbachev's reforms Gorbachev's two main reform ideas are perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness). Gorbachev announces reform plans to increase liberty ...

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