An economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union

• Soviet economic program begun in '88
• Literally, "restructuring"
• '80s Soviet policy
• Gorbachev policy

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, ...

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.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Perestroika was a series of political and economic reforms of the Soviet Union in the 1980s by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev . Perestroika may also refer to: Angels in America: Perestroika , the title of the second part of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Had they been in vogue in 1951, the words perestroika and glasnost might have been used by observers. ▪ In July a Pravda editorial had attacked perestroika for creating a new bureaucracy without solving the old problems. ▪ More ...