Perestroika and Glasnot
- The term was interpreted in the west as "openness"
- This policy shocked both his people and the west
- For the first time since the Tsars a leader encouraged open debate about the country
- The results were:
- Less censorship
- A change of view of soviet history
- Andrei Sakharov was freed from exile (developed the hydrogen bomb in Russia)
- Stalin was denounced
- Gorbachev announced socialism still hadn't arrived
Perestroika
- Gorbachev published a book with this title, which means "restructuring" it included:
- Denouncing Stalin
- Notion of one ideology one party
- admitted that Hungary, 1956 and Czechoslovakia, 1968 were mistakes
- That he wanted to return
Summary: Gorbachev introduced his ideas of Glasnost through his book "Perestroika". This idea encouraged numerous things, including: less censorship, a change of view of Soviet history, and the freedom of Andrei Sakharov.
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Quote:“Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.”
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