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Reform of the Soviet political and economic system in the 1980s
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perestroika
Alternative clues for the word perestroika
- Historic "restructuring"
- An economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union
- Literally, "restructuring"
- '80s Soviet policy
- Gorbachev policy
- Soviet economic program begun in '88
- Intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy
Word definitions for perestroika in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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
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 ...
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.