[Soviet Union] Democratisation in the Soviet Union was proposed by General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in January 1987. He was calling for the infusion of `democratic` elements into the Soviet Union`s single-party government. Gorbachev`s democratisation meant the introduction of multi-candidate - not multiparty - elections for local Communi...
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(from the article `Russia`) From the late 1980s through 1991the period of Mikhail Gorbachev`s perestroika (`restructuring`), glasnost (`openness`), and demokratizatsiya ...
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(democratization) Campaign initiated in the late 1980s by Mikhail S. Gorbachev to expand the participation of a variety of interest groups in political processes.
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