(GLAHZ-nohst) Russian: openness (glas is "voice" in Russian - having a voice, so to speak); popularized by Gorbachev in 1980's.
'openness', a term introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev about his post-1985 opening of Soviet society to dissidents, public criticism and limited admission of past Soviet mistakes (also see perestroika)
policy of "openness" introduced by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to ease tensions with the United States.
A policy promoted during the latter half of the 1980s in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev in which government secrecy (which had characterized the past several decades of Soviet policy) was discouraged and open discussion and distribution of information was encouraged. The term translates to "openness" in Russian.
a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems
literally 'voice-ness' commonly translated as 'openness'. Glasnost' was the name of Lenin's policy of converting education and media to propaganda devices, and Gorbechev's policy of loosening media controls.
"openness," part of Gorbachev's campaign to "tell it like it is" marked a break from the past were long banned writers sold millions of copies of their works, and denunciations of Stalin and his terror were standard public discourse. (p. 1033)
Policy introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the USSR in 1985. While perestroika is a change in the economic policies, glasnost is a shift in political practices. Glasnost is described by Gorbachev as a program for openness and democratization.
Policy of political liberation in Soviet Union in the late 1980s. (p. 907)
Russian for "openness," glasnost was the new policy of Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to encourage political debate and criticism in the Soviet Union. It was coupled with "perestroika" to decentralize administration and reward individual enterprise.
IPA: ) is a Russian word for "transparency" or "openness." Mikhail Gorbachev used the term to describe a program of reform introduced to the Soviet Union in 1985 whose goals included combating corruption and the abuse of privilege by the political classes. In the broadest sense, it aimed to liberalize freedom of the press gradually, and to allow for freedom of dissent. http://www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/1999/gibbs.htm Gorbachev's Glasnost: The Soviet Media in the First Phase of Perestroika by Joseph Gibbs The policy met resistance during the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, when authorities hid the true extent of the nuclear accident for several days.