perestroika


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
perestroika /ˌpɛrɪˈstrɔɪkə/
noun (in the former Soviet Union) the policy or practice of reforming the economic and political system, practised in the 1980s under Mikhail Gorbachev.
– origin Russ., lit. ‘restructuring’.
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