HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Strict laws against speaking
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Encouraged freedom in speech and governnment
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Anarchy and chaos
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American Rule over Russia
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Detailed explanation-1: -Perestroika (/ˌpɛrəˈstrɔɪkə/; Russian: ) was a political movement for reform within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning “openness") policy reform.
Detailed explanation-2: -A prime mover of change was Mikhail Gorbachev, whose policy of glasnost’ allowed freedom of expression and resulted in the abandonment of Marxist-Leninist ideology and a loss of legitimacy for the party.
Detailed explanation-3: -The policy of glasnost was where transparency in the political and administrative processes started to be encouraged. In the USSR which was plagued with corruption by that time, this policy of transparency suddenly created a huge shift. The policy of perestroika was aimed at many economic changes.
Detailed explanation-4: -1. This was a harbinger of glasnost to come. 2. The period of glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev led to a great burgeoning of group activity throughout the republics.