The difference between perestroika and glasnost?

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1. Bill B says

   Glasnost was the policy of maximal publicity, openness, and transparency in the activities of all government institutions in the Soviet Union, together with freedom of information, introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s.

   Perestroika was a political movement within the Communist Party of Soviet Union widely associated with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is "restructuring", referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.

   One was about changing the way the government was structured (perestroika) and the other was about being open and forthright about all the activities of the government (glasnost).

   Peace, Bill

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2. Barking Toad says

   Glasnost is the specific policy instituted by Michail Gorbatjev to encourage openness about the political process. Perestroika is the general term applied to his attempt to restructure the Soviet political system.

   Neither of those are religious terms.

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