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An economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union
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perestroika
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Perestroika was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "openness") policy reform. The literal meaning of perestroika ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1981, from Russian perestroika , literally "rebuilding, reconstruction, reform" (of Soviet society, etc.), from pere- "re-" (from Old Russian pere- "around, again," from Proto-Slavic *per- , from PIE *per- (1) "forward, through;" see per ) + stroika "building, ...
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n. 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
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context now historical English) A program of political and economic reform carried out in the Soviet Union in the 1980s under the leadership of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Gorbachev.
Usage examples of perestroika.
At the dawn of perestroika, Russian artists began painting irreverent caricatures of Mikhail Gorbachev on matryoshka dolls.
The old man had been a civil servant, one of the numberless apparatchiks who had been pushed out of the government bureaucracy in the name of perestroika and forced to find another job.