Perestroika

Pronunciation

Origin

From Russian перестройка (perestrójka, "restructuring")

Full definition of perestroika

Noun

1. A program of political and economic reform carried out in the Soviet Union in the 1980s under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev.
• 2004: Chris Wallace (journalist), Character: Profiles in Presidential CourageGorbachev 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.

Derived terms

• Salinastroika