perestroika

[ per-uh-stroi-kuh; Russian pyi-ryi-stroi-kuh ]

/ ˌpɛr əˈstrɔɪ kə; Russian pyɪ ryɪˈstrɔɪ kə /

Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.

Origin of perestroika

From the Russian word perestróĭka literally, rebuilding, reorganization

Of course, in Russia at that time you had just the beginning of Gorbachev, and glasnost and perestroika.

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Perestroika and glasnost may have come and gone, but the hair has remained the same.

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He built his empire in the perestroika days, when Russia was a new and often violent capitalism frontier.

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I left my hometown, Nizhny Novgorod, as a teenager in the midst of perestroika.

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His perestroika changed global politics, ended the Cold War, and won him a Nobel Peace Prize.

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perestroika

/ (ˌpɛrəˈstrɔɪkə) /

the policy of reconstructing the economy, etc, of the former Soviet Union under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachov

C20: Russian, literally: reconstruction