PERESTROIKA


Meaning of PERESTROIKA in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌper-ə-ˈstrȯi-kə ]

noun

Etymology: Russian perestroĭka, literally, restructuring

Date: 1986

: the policy of economic and governmental reform instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union during the mid-1980s

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