glasnost

Examples

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• Glasnost has been the principal domestic manifestation of perestroika, yet even glasnost, in many ways, is measured out in doses.

  Academic text (1991)

• Accompanying perestroika was glasnost, the partial liberation of the Soviet tongue and pen.

  Academic text (2011)

• But this is 1986; things are easier now, with glasnost and all?

  Fiction book (1997)

• In spite of glasnost, my friend's novel cannot yet be published... in the Soviet Union.

  The Russia House (1990)

• On central television, the coup brought out the best of the early glasnost tricks.

  Academic text (1993)

• Political change has affected, as previously noted, mainly glasnost (freedom of expression).

  Academic text (1991)

• Journalists started cautiously down the road of glasnost, wary of the penalties of stepping out of acceptable boundaries.

  Academic text (1993)

• The policy of glasnost allowed citizens to openly discuss political issues for the first time in decades.

• Thanks to glasnost, journalists were finally able to report on social issues without fear of censorship.

• During the era of glasnost, many Soviet citizens felt a sudden sense of freedom in expressing their opinions.

Antonyms

S

secrecy

141 4.4

Keeping information hidden from other people

C

censorship

93 4.8

A system that removes parts of books, films or news that people find harmful

How Open

openness

32 3.9

transparency

139 3.7

glasnost

10 9.9

censorship

93 4.8

secrecy

141 4.4

Surface Forms

Etymology