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perestroika

[ per-uh-stroi-kuh; Russian pyi-ryi-stroi-kuh ]

noun

  1. Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.


perestroika

/ ˌpɛrəˈstrɔɪkə /

noun

  1. 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

As his perestroika reforms upended the planned economy, the ruble’s purchasing power tanked again, necessitating money rationing in some areas and another currency reform in January 1991.

Of course, in Russia at that time you had just the beginning of Gorbachev, and glasnost and perestroika.

Echo has documented all the crises of the post-Perestroika era, wars, conflicts, scandals, and protests.

Perestroika and glasnost may have come and gone, but the hair has remained the same.

He built his empire in the perestroika days, when Russia was a new and often violent capitalism frontier.

I left my hometown, Nizhny Novgorod, as a teenager in the midst of perestroika.

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