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Glasnost

1980s Soviet policy promoting openness and transparency in government and scrutiny of leaders by the mass media
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Summary

Glasnost is a policy[1]. Glasnost ranks in the top 2% of policy entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,365 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Soviet Union[3]
  • Start time: 1985[4]
  • End time: 1991[5]
  • Described at URL: https://www.sosyalbilimlervakfi.org/tr/sozluk/glasnost[6]
  • Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8]
  • Native label: гла́сность[9]
  • Different from: Glasnost[10]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[11]

Why It Matters

Glasnost has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] Glasnost is known by 36 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → glasnost
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: glasnost, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289930782|glasnost (#289930782)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
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