How Eastern Europe Looks at Glasnost

The Soviet Union is trying to reform. Under the term perestroika (restructuring), attempts are being made by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to get some movement in the rusty machine - politically, economically, and culturally. The process has until now been largely confined to the verbal field. Few practical breakthroughs have been reached, and no guarantees for success exist. Thousands of party and state functionaries have been purged but millions have not.