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glasnost

/glaz-nost, glahz‐; Russian glahs-nuhst/US // ˈglæz nɒst, ˈglɑz‐; Russian ˈglɑs nəst //UK // (ˈɡlæsˌnɒst) //

格拉斯诺斯特,格拉斯诺斯特,格拉斯诺,格拉斯诺特

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the declared public policy within the Soviet Union of openly and frankly discussing economic and political realities: initiated under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.

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Examples

  • Of course, in Russia at that time you had just the beginning of Gorbachev, and glasnost and perestroika.

  • Still more excitingly for Cohen, glasnost included a Bukharin revival, with major support from Gorbachev himself.

  • Until virtually the day the Soviet empire collapsed, Rep. Dick Cheney was calling glasnost a fraud.

  • This scenario may sound like something from China or the pre-Glasnost communist bloc.

  • Technology will hopefully have made economic glasnost inevitable.