However, the media-friendly Mr Gorbachev surprised many with his smile and his desire to reform communism, with his buzzwords “glasnost” (openness) and “perestroika” (restructuring).

Both men had been cautious during the talks to tamp down expectations of a Cold War breakthrough on arms ... the gave the world new Russian terms: “glasnost,” or openness, and “perestroika ...

Due to Glasnost and Gorbachev’s policies, by 1989, Cold War tensions had begun to thaw across Europe, including in East and West Germany. An increasing number of public protests had led to the ...

When Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called for glasnost and perestroika (openness and restructuring) in the communist world in the 1980s, East German leaders resisted. But grass-roots opposition ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the then-Soviet Union and a reformer who helped end the Cold War and lead his country ... like “perestroika” and “glasnost," reforms that sought ...

Aug 30 (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed ... U.S. President Joe Biden said he had believed in "glasnost and perestroika – openness and ...