Etymology

perestroika

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Today it means: A program of political and economic reform carried out in the Soviet Union in the 1980s and early 1990s under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev. Full definition →

Russian перестро́йка
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  1. Russian · borrowed fromперестро́йка“restructuring”
  2. English todayperestroika

Borrowed from Russian перестро́йка (perestrójka, “restructuring”).

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