Gorbymania

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noun

Enthusiasm for Mikhail Gorbachev, USSR head of state from 1985 to 1991, who introduced the liberalizing reforms of glasnost and perestroika.

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Meanings

nounGorbymania (uncountable)

alternative Gorby-mania

  1. informaluncountableEnthusiasm for Mikhail Gorbachev, USSR head of state from 1985 to 1991, who introduced the liberalizing reforms of glasnost and perestroika.

    While in Bonn, at the time of Gorbymania, I fell in with part of the Russian entourage.

    1992, Claude E Barfield, Mark Perlman, Industry, Services, and Agriculture: The United States Faces a United Europe
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    Western readers stricken by Gorbymania and with only limited knowledge of the nuances of the Soviet power structure found such "exposes" shocking.

    1994, Yevgenia Albats, Catherine Fitzpatrick, The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia

Origin

From Gorby + -mania.

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