What are Gorbachev’s three reform programs, and explain them?
Three renewal programs by Gorbachev, namely glasnost or openness, perestroika or restructuring, and demokratizatsiya or political decentralization.
The explanation is as follows:
- Glasnost politics is the politics of openness to open dialogue on both economic and social-political issues in various aspects of life.
- Perestroika politics or restructuring is the politics of renewing the political, economic, and socio-cultural structures that were formerly a centralized financial system of socialism communism into a decentralized monetary system of democratic socialism.
- Demokratizatsiya politics is political decentralization in giving states full authority to manage their territories under the auspices of the Soviet Union.
