“Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.”
-Mikhail Gorbachev
-Mikhail Gorbachev
Glasnost
-Allow less censorship
•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
•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 to détente
•He wanted reform
•Denouncing Stalin
•Notion of one ideology one party
•Admitted that Hungary, 1956 and Czechoslovakia, 1968 were mistakes
•That he wanted to return to détente
•He wanted reform
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.