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perestroika

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A program of political and economic reform carried out in the Soviet Union in the 1980s and early 1990s under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev.
  2. The period of time in the Soviet Union during which these reforms were carried out and in effect.
  3. A situation where a small variation of parameters leads to a sudden change in properties.

Pronunciation

/pɛɹ.ɪˈstɹɔɪ.kə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Knabrupt-perestroika.wav

Word forms

perestroika perestroikas

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian перестро́йка (perestrójka, “restructuring”).

Related words

doi moi glasnost

Derived words

antiperestroika Perestroikan Salinastroika

Translations

Arabic: بِيرِيسْتْرُويْكَا Armenian: պերեստրոյկա Azerbaijani: yenidənqurma Belarusian: перабудо́ва Bulgarian: перестро́йка Chinese Mandarin: 經濟改革 /经济改革 Czech: přestavba Czech: perestrojka Danish: perestrojka Dutch: perestrojka Erzya: одстеема Esperanto: perestrojko Estonian: perestroika Finnish: perestroika Finnish: uudelleenrakentaminen French: perestroïka Georgian: პერესტროიკა Georgian: გარდაქმნა German: Perestroika German: Umbau German: Umgestaltung Greek: περεστρόικα Hebrew: פֶּרֶסְטְרוֹיְקָה Hindi: पेरेस्ट्रोइका Hungarian: peresztrojka Ido: perestroika Indonesian: perestroika Italian: perestroika Japanese: ペレストロイカ Kazakh: қайта құру Korean: 페레스트로이카 Northern Kurdish: perestroyka Latvian: perestroika Lithuanian: perestroika Lithuanian: persitvarkymas Luxembourgish: Perestroika Malay: perestroika Marathi: पेरेस्ट्रॉइका Mongolian: перестройка Norwegian: perestrojka Persian: پرسترویکا Polish: pieriestrojka Polish: pierestrojka Portuguese: perestroika Romanian: perestroika Russian: перестро́йка Serbo-Croatian: перестро̑јка Serbo-Croatian: престројка Serbo-Croatian: perestrȏjka Serbo-Croatian: prestrojka
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