Glasnost vs Gorbymania - What's the difference?
glasnost | gorbymania |
1980s policy of the Soviet Union under Gorbachev to allow more government transparency; often paired with perestroika
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
(informal) Enthusiasm]] for , USSR head of state from 1985 to 1991, who introduced the [[liberalize, liberalizing reforms of glasnost and perestroika.
*1992 , Claude E Barfield, Mark Perlman, Industry, Services, and Agriculture: The United States Faces a United Europe ,
*:While in Bonn, at the time of Gorbymania , I fell in with part of the Russian entourage.
*1994 , Yevgenia Albats, Catherine Fitzpatrick, The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia ,
*:Western readers stricken by Gorbymania and with only limited knowledge of the nuances of the Soviet power structure found such "exposes" shocking.
As nouns the difference between glasnost and gorbymania
is that glasnost is 1980s policy of the soviet union under gorbachev to allow more government transparency; often paired with perestroika while gorbymania is (informal) enthusiasm]] for , ussr head of state from 1985 to 1991, who introduced the [[liberalize|liberalizing reforms of glasnost and perestroika.glasnost
English
(wikipedia glasnost)Noun
- Gorbachev would introduce glasnost'' (openness and freedom) and ''perestroika (economic restructuring) to Russia under his tenure, ultimately freeing thousands of political prisoners and dissidents and trying to address the shortages in food and goods that had become the hallmarks of the failing Soviet economy.
