Intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy

• Soviet economic program begun in '88
• Literally, "restructuring"
• Historic "restructuring"
• '80s Soviet policy
• Reform of the Soviet political and economic system in the 1980s

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n. (alternative spelling of perestroika English)

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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 ...

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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 ...