perestroika
/per-uh-stroi-kuh; Russian pyi-ryi-stroi-kuh/US // ˌpɛr əˈstrɔɪ kə; Russian pyɪ ryɪˈstrɔɪ kə //UK // (ˌpɛrəˈstrɔɪkə) //
改革开放,改革,改革进程,革新
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
Examples
Of course, in Russia at that time you had just the beginning of Gorbachev, and glasnost and perestroika.
Echo has documented all the crises of the post-Perestroika era, wars, conflicts, scandals, and protests.
Perestroika and glasnost may have come and gone, but the hair has remained the same.
He built his empire in the perestroika days, when Russia was a new and often violent capitalism frontier.
I left my hometown, Nizhny Novgorod, as a teenager in the midst of perestroika.
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