perestroika

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Russian перестройка (perestroika), restructuring.

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perestroika (plural perestroikas)

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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