Perestroika and Glasnost
Glasnost:
-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 had'nt 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 detente
-He wanted reform
-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 had'nt 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 detente
-He wanted reform
SUMMARY
In the 1980s, the Soviet Union was engulfed by a multitude of problems. The economy, especially the agricultural sector, began to fall apart. The country lacked technological advancements and used inefficient factories, all while consumers were buying low-quality products and suffered from a shortage of social freedoms. To reform the distraught Soviet Union, the democratization of the Communist Party was promoted through Party Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev‘s policies of “perestroika” and “glasnost.”