different between perestroika vs gorbymania

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /p??.??st??i.k?/

Noun

perestroika (countable and uncountable, plural perestroikas)

1. (historical, uncountable) 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.
   • 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

     Gorbachev would introduce glasnost (openness and freedom) and perestroika (economic restructuring) to Russia under his tenure, ultimately freeing thousands of political prisoners and dissidents and trying to address the shortages in food and goods that had become the hallmarks of the failing Soviet economy.

2. (historical, uncountable) The period of time in the Soviet Union during which these reforms were carried out and in effect.
3. (countable, singularity theory) A situation where a small variation of parameters leads to a sudden change in properties.

Derived terms

• antiperestroika
• Perestroikan
• Salinastroika

Translations

See also

• doi moi
• glasnost

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ???????????? (perestrójka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?perestroi?k?/, [?pe?re?s?t??ro?i?k?]
• Rhymes: -oik?
• Syllabification: pe?rest?roi?ka

Noun

perestroika

1. (historical) perestroika

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

perestroika f (plural perestroikas)

1. perestroika (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)