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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. 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.