perestroika

Noun

Meaning

an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union; intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

cold war bolshevism reform transformation improvement reconstruction adjustment rebuild communism alteration reorganization Gorbachev overhaul rearrangement betterment
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Antonyms

blight damage destroy harm ruin flaw
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Hypernyms

economic policy

Examples

Perestroika is nothing but a spectacle organized from above. Aleksandr Zinovyev

The more I reflect on the current world developments, the more I become convinced that the world needs perestroika no less than the Soviet Union needs it. Mikhail Gorbachev

Khrushchev's perestroika ended without any bloodshed. Khrushchev's companions abandoned their leader in time and turned Brezhnevists. Aleksandr Zinovyev

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika. Carlos Fuentes

No one is in a position to describe in detail what perestroika will finally produce. But it would certainly be a self-delusion to expect that perestroika will produce "a copy" of anything. Mikhail Gorbachev

I have long ago made a final and irrevocable decision. Nothing and no one, no pressure, cither from the right or from the left, will make me abandon the positions of perestroika and new thinking. I do not intend to change my views or convictions. My choice is a final one. Mikhail Gorbachev

Close letter words and terms

Pereskia aculeata pereslavl-zalessky perester Perestroikan perestrojka Peret