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Glasnost .
he began to work together with western countries
Perestroika
Mikhail Gorbachev.
Gorbachev promoted cooperation with western countries in order to change soviet foreign policy.
Gorbachev promoted cooperation with western countries in order to change soviet foreign policy.
Gorbachev promoted cooperation with western countries in order to change soviet foreign policy.
the two countries became less hostile toward each other
Mikhail Gorbachev became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thus the leader of the USSR, in 1985.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Gorbachev's policy that eased censorship in the Soviet Union and introduced many other democratic freedoms was referred to as glasnost, which literally means "openness".