Definition of perestroika
: the policy of economic and governmental reform instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union during the mid-1980s
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Rather than policing the boundaries of respectable opinion, which are much narrower than the actual debates taking place, Times could use an ideological perestroika: to truly open itself up the breadth of opinion in America.
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Democratization is out of the question: perestroika and glasnost are Putin’s nightmares.
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Origin and Etymology of perestroika
Russian perestroĭka, literally, restructuring
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