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Definition perestroika in American English

perestroika noun

noun
1

a policy of drastic changes in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid-1980s

Example

By 1989 perestroika, or reconstruction, in the USSR was in full swing.

Definition perestroika in American English