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Mikhail Gorbachev's intention with the improvements he introduced after his induction to power can be considered as an effort to restore and revitalize the communist system. Glasnost provided for freedom of expression and the loosening of controls on radio, press, the film industry, and television immediately covered the way for public opinion to slip behind Gorbachev’s grip. Those who resisted Gorbachev now had a voice as well as those who desired to go faster and farther than he did. The fundamental law of the Party’s primary role was eventually undermined by the thesis of glasnost.
