Topic summary
Uskorenie
Presidency
Foreign policy
Post-leadership
Uskorenie (Russian: ускорение, IPA:; literally meaning acceleration) was a slogan and a policy announced by Communist PartyGeneral SecretaryMikhail Gorbachev on 20 April 1985 at a Soviet Party Plenum, aimed at the acceleration of political, social and economic development of the Soviet Union. It was the first slogan of a set of reforms that also included perestroika (restructuring), glasnost (transparency), new political thinking, and demokratizatsiya (democratization).