"Glasnost" – a book typed almost entirely on a typewriter. Combines letters by the soviet writers and dissidents with contemporary articles.

Glasnost as a term was used in 1986 by Mikhail Gorbachev as a political slogan for increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union. Critics aware of the term’s recent history regarded the Soviet authorities’ new slogan as a vague and limited alternative to more basic liberties: according to Alexei Simonov of the Glasnost Defence Foundation, “Glasnost is a tortoise crawling towards freedom of speech”.