Usually means: Restructuring Soviet economy and society.
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  1. perestroika: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. perestroika: Merriam-Webster
  3. perestroika: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. perestroika: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. perestroika: Collins English Dictionary
  6. perestroika: Vocabulary.com
  7. Perestroika, perestroika: Wordnik
  8. perestroika: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. perestroika: Wiktionary
  10. perestroika: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. perestroika: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. perestroika: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. perestroika: Dictionary.com
  14. perestroika: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Perestroika (disambiguation), Perestroika (video game), Perestroika: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. perestroika: Rhymezone
  17. perestroika: FreeDictionary.org
  18. perestroika: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. perestroika: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. perestroika: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (perestroika)

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

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