Meaning & use
perestroika
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A policy of political and economic restructuring, especially the reforms introduced in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s.
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Perestroika aimed to introduce market-oriented reforms into the Soviet economy.
Historians still debate whether perestroika hastened or merely coincided with the Soviet collapse.
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A Russian word that entered English specifically through Mikhail Gorbachev's reform program; used narrowly for that historical context or, more loosely, for any major restructuring.
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