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Gorbachev's interpretation of "glasnost" can best be summarised in English as "openness". While associated with [[freedom of speech]], the main goal of this policy was to make the country's management transparent, and circumvent the holding of near-complete control of the economy and bureaucracy of the Soviet Union by a concentrated body of officials and bureaucratic personnel.
During Glasnost, Soviet history under Stalin was re-examined; censored literature in the libraries was made more widely available;<ref>[http://www.ib.hu-berlin.de/~pbruhn/glasnost.htm Glasnost] im sowjetischen Bibliothekswesen (by Peter Bruhn)</ref><ref>А.П. Шикман: ''Совершенно несекретно'' in: Советская библиография, 1988,6 (231), P.3-12</ref> and there was a greater freedom of speech for citizens and openness in the media. It was in the late 1980's when most people in the Soviet Union began to learn about the atrocities of Stalin, and learned about previously suppressed events
Information about the supposedly higher quality of consumer goods and quality of life in the [[United States]] and [[Western Europe]] began to be transmitted to the Soviet population,<ref name="ScottChapter8">{{cite book|title=Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union|last=Shane|first=Scott|publisher=Ivan R. Dee|year=1994|isbn=1-56663-048-7|location=Chicago|pages=212 to 244|chapter=Letting Go of the Leninist Faith|quote=All this degradation and hypocrisy is laid not just at the feet of Stalin but of Lenin and the Revolution that made his rule possible.}}</ref> along with western [[popular culture]].<ref name="ScottChapter7">{{cite book|last=Shane|first=Scott|title=Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union|year=1994|publisher=Ivan R. Dee|location=Chicago|isbn=1-56663-048-7|pages=182 to 211|chapter=A Normal Country: The Pop Culture Explosion|quote=...market forces had taken over publishing...}}</ref>
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