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In the two years after Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, there was much debate both in the West and in the Soviet Union about whether glasnost’ — variously translated as ‘openness’, ‘publicity’, ‘voicing opinions’ — was genuine and if it was, how far it would be allowed to go. In the third year, even some of the most sceptical analysts had begun to concede that the policy of glasnost’ had wrought profound change in the character of the Soviet media.1 The official press had been in the forefront of that change.
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F. Burlatskii, Literaturnaia gazeta, 24 February 1988
A. Aganbegian, Ogonek, 1987, 28, 29; N. Shmelev, ‘The rouble and perestroika’, Moscow News, 1988, 6.
F. Burlatskii, Pravda, 18 July 1987; also V. Korotich, editor of Ogonek, interviewed by Moscow radio in English, 2000 GMT, 19 November 1987, published in BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, SU/0009/B/1.
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Dejevsky, M. (1989). Glasnost’ and the Soviet Press. In: Graffy, J., Hosking, G.A. (eds) Culture and the Media in the USSR Today. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20106-8_3
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