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