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Currently two Russian words are challenging correspondents, among others, to find English equivalents: perestroika and glasnost '. The first of these Gorbachevian buzzwords can be handily calqued into English as `restructuring.
The mid-1980s witnessed a gradual program of liberalization in Poland on the heels of Mikhail Gorbachev’s remarkable perestroika and glasnost in the Soviet Union, the promises of greater openness and economic freedoms.
As the winds of perestroika blew in from Moscow, Kádár was removed from power in 1988, and, in 1989, the formation of opposition parties was legalized.
But since both perestroika and glasnost' from our point of view do not mean `restructuring' and `publicity' generally, as the English words do to us, but rather refer to reforms specifically initiated by Gorbachev, the Russian words, particularly glasnost', are usually borrowed into English unaltered (except in pronunciation).
Although it continued to stress the likelihood of a hard-line revolt against perestroika, it did conclude that Mikhail Gorbachev's reformist inclinations were sincere.