English
Etymology
Russian пе�е���ойка (perestroika), restructuring.

Noun
perestroika

1. Gorbachev's reforms in the Soviet Union in the 1980s.

#*2004: w: Chris Wallace (journalist)|Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
#*:Gorbachev 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.

Translations

Bulgarian: пе�е���ойка (perestrójka) f
Czech: p�estavba f, perestrojka f
Danish: perestrojka
Dutch: perestrojka
Estonian: perestroika
Finnish: perestroika#Finnish|perestroika
French: perestroïka
German: Perestroika
Hebrew: פרס�ר��ק� (perestroika)
Ido: perestroika
Italian: perestrojka
Japanese: ������� (peresutoroika)
Korean: ������카 (pereseuteuroika)
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Kurdish: perestroyka f
Luxembourgish: Perestroika
Norwegian: perestrojka
Persian: FAchar|پر�ستر�کا (prostrika)
Polish: pieriestrojka f
Portuguese: perestroika
Russian: пе�е���ойка (perestrójka) f
Serbian: пе�е���о�ка
Slovak: prestavba, perestrojka f
Spanish: perestroika
Swedish: perestrojka
Tagalog: perestrojka
Turkish: perestroyka

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