perestroika

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From Russian перестройка (perestrójka), restructuring)  audiohelp, file.

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Singular
perestroika

Plural
uncountable

perestroika (uncountable)

  1. Gorbachev's reforms in the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
    • 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
      Gorbachev would introduce glasnost (openness and freedom) and perestroika (economic restructuring) to Russia under his tenure, ultimately freeing thousands of political prisoners and dissidents and trying to address the shortages in food and goods that had become the hallmarks of the failing Soviet economy.

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  • IPA: [pɛɾɛst(ɨ)roɪjkɑ]
  • Hyphenation: pe‧res‧troi‧ka

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From Russian перестройка (perestrójka), restructuring)

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perestroika (definite accusative perestroikayı, plural perestroikalar)

  1. perestroika

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