1. Plural of glasnost; instances or policies of openness and transparency in government or public discourse, especially as practiced in the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s.
Usage: Historical; often capitalized when referring to the Soviet policy; Borrowed from Russian

Examples

• The glasnosts introduced by Gorbachev allowed Soviet citizens greater freedom of speech.
• Multiple glasnosts were implemented across different government agencies during the reform period.
• Historians credit glasnosts with accelerating the fall of the Soviet Union.
• The policy of glasnosts represented a dramatic shift from decades of state control over information.