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How to pronounce perestroika in English?

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Type of economic policy

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Only during perestroika was Dnipropetrovsk opened to foreigners again in 1987.
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Gorbachev's perestroika further encouraged this drive towards greater integration.
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Glasnost, which has succeeded, is as endangered as perestroika, which has not.
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Perestroika and glasnost are about the only words I can pick out as he talks.
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In Bulgaria an aging leadership shows no sign of interest in homegrown perestroika.
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People say I have great timing, but perestroika arrived just in time for Abramovich.
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In typical Soviet fashion, perestroika took another lurching step forward last week.
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By 1989 his perestroika, or reconstruction and opening, was in full swing.
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In many ways Mr Gorbachev's perestroika was a belated fulfilment of the Prague Spring.
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  • 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
  • Perestroika (Russian: u043Fu0435u0440u0435u0441u0442u0440u043Eu0301u0439u043Au0430; IPA:u00A0u00A0( listen)) was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "openness") policy reform. The literal meaning of perestroika is "restructuring", referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.
  • The Perestroika Movement in political science is a faction that works towards methodological pluralism and to heighten relevance of political science to people outside the discipline. ...
  • Perestroika (also known as Toppler) is a Russian computer game released by a small software developer called Locis (Nikita Skripkin, Aleksander Okrug and Dmitry Chikin, currently - NIKITA software) in the Soviet Union in 1990/1991, and named after Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of Perestroika. ...
  • Gorbachev's reforms in the Soviet Union in the 1980s
  • Alternative spelling of perestroika
  • Gorbachev's campaign to revitalize the party, economy, and society by adjusting economic, political, and social mechanisms. Announced at Twenty-Seventh Party Congress in August 1986.
  • An economic initiative launched by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid-1980s in an attempt to move the Soviet economy in the market direction and to open up trade, finance, and investment relations with the West. ...
  • A policy of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to revitalize the Soviet economy by opening it up to more free enterprise.