Glasnost | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-05-07

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasnost


00:00:45 1 Historical usage
00:01:32 2 Glasnost in the USSR
00:01:43 2.1 Glasnost and the dissidents
00:03:07 2.2 Glasnost and Gorbachev
00:04:26 2.2.1 Various meanings of Gorbachev's "glasnost"
00:05:47 2.2.2 International Relations under Glasnost
00:06:51 3 Glasnost in Russia since 1991
00:07:49 4 See also



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In the Russian language the word Glasnost (; Russian: гла́сность, IPA: [ˈɡɫasnəsʲtʲ] (listen)) has several general and specific meanings. It has been used in Russian to mean "openness and transparency" since at least the end of the eighteenth century.In the Russian Empire of the late-19th century, the term was particularly associated with reforms of the judicial system, ensuring that the press and the public could attend court hearings and that the sentence was read out in public. In the mid-1980s, it was popularised by Mikhail Gorbachev as a political slogan for increased government transparency in the Soviet Union.