per‧e‧stroi‧ka /ˌperəˈstrɔɪkə, ˌperɪˈstrɔɪkə/ noun [uncountable]
[Date: 1900-2000; Language: Russian; Origin: perestroit 'to rebuild, reorganize']
a Russian word meaning ‘rebuilding’, used to describe the social, political, and economic changes that happened in the former USSR in the 1980s, just before the end of the Communist government ⇒ glasnost

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