In his book Perestroika, Gorbachev proclaims to the ... who has studied the debates taking place in the Soviet Union, notes that Leonid Albalkin, one of the “radical reformers” whose ideas ...

The volume contained a comprehensive and politically devastating analysis of the program and actions of the regime of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union, as it moved toward the liquidation of ...

The two central reform ideas are perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness). play Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union In 1985 Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of the ...

This course discusses recent anthropological literature on the former Soviet Union, focusing on issues such as religion ... In the Soviet House of Culture: A century of Perestroika's. Princeton: ...

Within just a few years, the Soviet Union collapsed ... the USSR by breaking the chains of the old bureaucracy with perestroika (economic reform) and glasnost (openness and transparency).

At the time, the Soviet Union's economy was struggling to keep pace with the US, and Gorbachev pursued two main solutions. He said the country needed "perestroika" - or restructuring - and his ...

Western nations were enthralled by his efforts to promote perestroika in the totalitarian state of the Soviet Union ruled by the Communist Party. But his domestic popularity was low because many ...

The USA and the Soviet Union’s opposing political and economic ... changing relations between the superpowers and Glasnost and Perestroika.

Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of Soviet Union and ‘perestroika’ reform efforts, dies at 91 As leader of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Gorbachev introduced a policy of greater transparency of ...