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Pronunciation: [ɡlˈasnɒst] (IPA)

Glasnost, a Russian word meaning "openness," was a significant policy change introduced by the Soviet Union in the 1980s. The term was widely adopted by the international media during that time, and it became a buzzword for Soviet political reform. If you are looking for synonyms for glasnost, there are several words and phrases you can use. These include transparency, accountability, accessibility, frankness, honesty, freedom to speak, and open-mindedness. All these words convey the same core idea of openness and honesty, which were the hallmarks of Soviet-inspired political reform in the 1980s.

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What are the opposite words for glasnost?

Glasnost is a Russian word that means openness, transparency, and free expression. Its antonyms are repression, concealment, and censorship. Repression refers to the act of preventing people from expressing their ideas or opinions freely. Concealment implies a deliberate attempt to hide or keep something secret, while censorship refers to the control or suppression of information by the government or other authorities. These words describe the opposite of the principles of transparency and openness that Glasnost embodies. While Glasnost represented a significant shift in Soviet politics during the late 1980s towards greater openness, its antonyms continue to symbolize the lack of freedom and democracy in many societies today.

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Famous quotes with Glasnost

  • Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.
    Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
  • For those unfamiliar with modern Indian history: the Marxists, already pushy for acquiring as much power in the institutions as they could grab, were handed a near-monopoly on institutional power in India's academic and educational sector by Indira Gandhi ca. 1970. Involved in an intra-Congress power struggle, she needed the help of the Left. Her confidants P.N. Haksar and Nurul Hasan packed the institutions with Marxists, card-carrying or otherwise. When, during the Emergency dictatorship (1975-77), her Communist Party allies threatened to become too powerful, she and her son Sanjay removed them from key political positions but, in a typical instance of politicians' short-sightedness, they left the Marxists? hold on the cultural sector intact. In the good old Soviet tradition, they at once set out to falsify history and propagate their own version through the official textbooks. After coming to power in 1998, the BJP-dominated government has made a half-hearted and not always very competent attempt to effect glasnost (openness, transparency) at least in the history textbooks. This led the Marxists to start a furious hate campaign against the so-called 'saffronization' of history.
    Koenraad Elst
  • What the BJP government claims to offer, what all scholarly historians want, and what is loathed by the Marxists who have dominated the cultural and educational establishment since decades, is glasnost: openness, an end to the dead hand of Marxist dogma in Indian history-writing. However, it is quite wrong to say that the Sangh Parivar takes this job “very seriously”. It took three years before relieving leading Marxists of their influential positions (Prasar Bharati, NCERT, IHC). Most of its new nominees were not up to the job, some because of ill-health (e.g. K.S. Lal and B.R. Grover, both now deceased), some because they had never functioned in an academic setting. It should not be forgotten that for decades, at least since ca. 1970 when the Marxists led by P.N. Haksar and Nurul Hasan were given a lot of effective power in this sector in return for their support to Indira Gandhi, distinctly non-Marxist young historians found their access to an academic career blocked by the Marxist hegemons. Of the new textbooks, some are impeccable and are welcomed as undeniable improvements, e.g. Meenakshi Jain’s presentation of the Muslim period, arguably the most sensitive and controversial part of the series. Some of the others, by contrast, have been criticized or ridiculed even by fair-minded observers.
    Koenraad Elst
  • Since some ignorant dupes of these Marxists denounce as “McCarthyist” anyone who points out their ideological inspiration, it deserves to be emphasized that “eminent historians” like Romila Thapar, R.S. Sharma and Irfan Habib are certified as Marxists in standard Marxist sources like Tom Bottomore's Dictionary of Marxist Thought . During the official historians' Ayodhya temple/mosque dispute in 1991, the pro-mosque team's argumentation and several other anti-temple pamphlets were published by the People's Publishing House, a Communist Party outfit. One of the recent textbook innovations most furiously denounced as “saffronization” was the truism that Lenin's armed seizing of power in October/November 1917 was a “coup d'état”. And in early 2003, while they were unchaining all their devils against glasnost , the Marxists ruling West Bengal deleted from a textbook a passage in which Mahatma Gandhi's biographer Louis Fischer called Stalin “at least as ruthless as Hitler”. Such are the true concerns of the “secularists” warning the world against the attempts at glasnost in India's national history curriculum.
    Koenraad Elst

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