Word: perestroika
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...Canada Institute. The Russians were thrilled that I had figured out the Cyrillic alphabet and was able to read the program. The young woman on my left rewarded me with a smile-a rare public act in that terrifying regime-and a whispered encouragement: reform was coming. Glasnost and perestroika, she assured me, were real. The minder on my left, a chunky young man, then nudged me with his elbow. "Ronald Reagan. Evil empire," he whispered with dramatic intensity, and shot a glance down to his lap where he had hidden two enthusiastic thumbs...
Zittrain and Nesson, veterans in this newly controversial field, can recall those pre-perestroika days, when their ivory-tower pursuit of choice fought to hold students’ and scholars’ interest next to glamorous criminal and civil...
...corroding concrete and dirty smokestacks or the school’s blatant anti-Harvard propaganda and horrifically poor labor relations that make it that way. It’s that Yale can’t hope to compete with a real superpower, especially when its little bundle of perestroika is confiscated by a hard-line police state before the fun begins...
...Communist Party vowed to quadruple China's per-capita income by 2020 but made no promises about advancing democracy or civil rights. The Chinese have learned some lessons from the former Soviet Union. In the 1980s Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, encouraged by Western assurances, pursued glasnost (openness) before perestroika (restructuring) and saw the Soviet Union split apart in 1991. Like the U.S.S.R., China consists of many cultures and ethnic groups. Chinese leaders have decided, very wisely, to pursue their policies in the right sequence. They will safeguard their territorial integrity by building a strong economy and sharing prosperity among...
...positive change in the Soviet Union as citizens grasped just how awful the system had become. Gorbachev realized that "even if you wanted to be Stalin, you couldn't anymore," says Michael Mandelbaum of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Within months, the Soviet leader accelerated his perestroika and glasnost reforms, which speeded the collapse of Soviet communism. In China, Hu sacked the health minister and Beijing's mayor. But it still isn't clear whether he and other top officials truly understand that a free flow of information is critical to a healthy society, to free markets...