Word: glasnost
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Looking back at perestroika and glasnost, he did concede that he had no idea what those changes would lead to. He thought at the outset that he could tinker a bit to ease the pressures on the Soviet economy and make society more comfortable. He blames the system for making that impossible. Initially, he said, some progress was visible, but when senior officials of the party and state saw how the reforms might threaten their power and positions, they put on the brakes. If the ruling hierarchy's grip was to be broken, he decided, a more democratic form...
GLOOM IN THE TIME OF GLASNOST...
Goaded by Congress, the CIA declassified a report calling for more public access to officials and historical documents. A benefit of CIA glasnost: "We have persuaded reporters to postpone, change, hold or even scrap" many stories adverse to U.S. interests...
...EMPERORS by Harrison E. Salisbury (Little, Brown; $24.95). Enlivened by dozens of interviews, this narrative history of China under communism by a seasoned journalist documents the chaos and corruption of Mao Zedong's reign and the inexorable trend toward glasnost that started under Deng Xiaoping...
Then came Gorbachev, glasnost, democratization and their natural consequence: the collapse of the Soviet state. We in the West have tended to underestimate the economic factor in the breakup of the U.S.S.R. We saw Balts, Georgians and Ukrainians venting their hatred of Russia and wrenching free of those notorious Russian-dominated institutions of repression -- the Communist Party, the KGB, the Soviet army...