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Answer for the clue "Historic "restructuring" ", 11 letters:
perestroika

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Perestroika (also known as Toppler ) is a Russian video game released in 1989 by a small software developer called Locis (Nikita Skripkin, Aleksander Okrug and Dmitry Chikin, currently - Nikita online) in the Soviet Union in 1990, and named after Mikhail ...

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.

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, ...

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.