{"id":25260,"date":"2025-02-08T07:40:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T06:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=25260"},"modified":"2025-02-08T07:40:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T06:40:27","slug":"glasnost-and-roads-not-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=25260","title":{"rendered":"Glasnost and roads not taken"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It was for this reason that Gorbach\u00ebv initiated a series of public debates. The policy was encapsulated in the slogan of glasnost. This is a difficult word to translate, broadly connoting &#8218;openness&#8216;, &#8218;a voicing&#8216; and &#8218;a making public&#8216;. Gorbach\u00ebv\u2018s choice of vocabulary was not accidental. Glasnost, for all its vagueness, does not mean freedom of information. He had no intention of relinquishing the Politburo&#8217;s capacity to decide the limits of public discussion. Moreover, his assumption was that if Soviet society were to examine its problems within a framework of guidance, a renaissance of Leninist ideals would occur. Gorbach\u00ebv was not a political liberal. At the time, however, it was not so much his reservation of communist party power as his liberating initiative that was impressive. Gorbach\u00ebv was freeing debate in the USSR to an extent that no Soviet leader had attempted, not even Khrushch\u00ebv and certainly not Lenin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Robert Service, <em>The Penguin History of Modern Russia<\/em>, (<span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Great Britain<\/span>: <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Penguin Books<\/span>, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">2020), 448<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was for this reason that Gorbach\u00ebv initiated a series of public debates. The policy was encapsulated in the slogan of glasnost. This is a difficult word to translate, broadly connoting &#8218;openness&#8216;, &#8218;a voicing&#8216; and &#8218;a making public&#8216;. Gorbach\u00ebv\u2018s choice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=25260\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}