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4 dictionary results for: Perestroika
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pe·re·stroi·ka       [per-uh-stroi-kuh; Russ. pyi-ryi-stroi-kuh] Pronunciation Key
–noun
Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
[Origin: < Russ perestróĭka lit., rebuilding, reorganization]
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per·e·stroi·ka       (pěr'ĭ-stroi'kə)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   The restructuring of the Soviet economy and bureaucracy that began in the mid 1980s.


[Russian perestroĭka : pere-, around, again (from Old Russian; see per1 in Indo-European roots) + stroĭka, construction (from stroit', to build, from Old Russian stroiti, from strojĭ, order; see ster-2 in Indo-European roots).]

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perestroika 
1981, from Rus., lit. "rebuilding, reconstruction, reform" (of Soviet society, etc.), from pere- "re-" + stroika "building, construction." First proposed at the 26th Party Congress (1979); popularized in Eng. 1985 during Mikhail Gorbachev's leadership of the U.S.S.R.

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perestroika

noun
an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union; intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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