The atricle is devoted to considering the functionality and the goal-setting of the propaganda during the period of Perestroika in the USSR. It is also analyzed the changes in the use of the propaganda machine within the policy of Uskoreniye [literally meaning «acceleration»] and Glasnost [literal meaning «publicity»] – the substantive instruments of transformation of all the sphears of the Soviet society.
The article presents the result of reflection on the contradictions between the ideological and theoretical substantiation of the concepts “acceleration” and “perestroika” and their real results, which became one of the most important reasons of collapse of the socialist system and the USSR.
