The Soviet Period, which is a process that people interested especially in contemporary world history are curious about, is being explored in every sense. It is curious what the policies of Glasnost and Perestroika, especially in the last period of Soviets, were. So what is Glasnost?
What is Glasnost?
Glasnost is the name given to all of the policies implemented under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev in the last period of the Soviet Union to put an end to economic problems in the country. It started to be implemented in 1985 and ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
In a sense, Glasnost can be seen as a combination of freedom of thought and expression. The aim of this policy was to be a means of building trust in the Soviet society against the state and the rulers, especially after the indignation experienced after the Chernobyl disaster. According to Gorbachev's understanding of socialism, it was necessary to send some of the practices that gangrenous socialism, and this could only be possible with a discussion environment in which every level of society could participate and everyone would be given the right to speak.
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When the Perestroika policy, which was initiated after Glasnost and had to be carried out in parallel, failed and the political and social freedoms could not find a response to production in the economy, Glasnost this time-reversed and led Gorbachev to seek help from the August Coup and failed to save the USSR from disintegration.
The concepts of "openness" and "reconstruction", which mean Glasnost or Perestroika, could not prevent the collapse of the Soviets, on the contrary, the logic of freedom that was taken in the name of democratization made the opposition groups in the country stronger and the state began to shake with internal turmoil in a short time.