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 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev set out to save the Soviet Union with bold reforms. Instead, he unleashed forces that would bring it to its knees. This is the story of Perestroika and Glasnost.

The last president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and father of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 91. “This afternoon, after a long and ...

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 ...

Gorbachev said the West insists in describing ... and instigator of the “perestroika” reforms, the main challenge facing the world is the fact that the five leading nations, which acknowledge ...

Gorbachev explicitly acknowledged this link between the changes in the state structure and the economic program of perestroika in his July speech to the central committee: “This apparatus should ...

"But if I had had no trust in the people, perestroika would have never begun," he said. The full interview with the USSR’s first and last president, Mikhail Gorbachev, dedicated to his 90th ...

In the interview, Gorbachev said Novaya Gazeta was the manifestation of his glasnost policy of information disclosure, which was promoted as part of perestroika. That background goes a long way in ...