Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·russian ·1985
Glasnost
from гласность (glasnost')
- Meaning
- Openness, publicity (from glas = voice).
- Source word
- гласность (glasnost')
- Route into English
- Gorbachev's policy from 1985; entered English political vocabulary the same year.
- Arrived
- 1985
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