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    perestroika
    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