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perestroika
[ per-uh-stroi-kuh; Russian pyi-ryi-stroi-kuh ]
noun
- Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
perestroika
/ ˌpɛrəˈstrɔɪkə /
noun
- the policy of reconstructing the economy, etc, of the former Soviet Union under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachov
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Word History and Origins
Origin of perestroika1
From the Russian word perestróĭka literally, rebuilding, reorganization
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Word History and Origins
Origin of perestroika1
C20: Russian, literally: reconstruction
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Example Sentences
Of course, in Russia at that time you had just the beginning of Gorbachev, and glasnost and perestroika.
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Echo has documented all the crises of the post-Perestroika era, wars, conflicts, scandals, and protests.
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Perestroika and glasnost may have come and gone, but the hair has remained the same.
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He built his empire in the perestroika days, when Russia was a new and often violent capitalism frontier.
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I left my hometown, Nizhny Novgorod, as a teenager in the midst of perestroika.
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