Historic "restructuring"

• Intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy
• An economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union
• Reform of the Soviet political and economic system in the 1980s
• Gorbachev policy
• Soviet economic program begun in '88
• '80s Soviet policy

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 ...

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.