PERESTROIKA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perestroika mean? 

• PERESTROIKA (noun)
  The noun PERESTROIKA has 1 sense:

1. an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union; intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy

  Familiarity information: PERESTROIKA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERESTROIKA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union; intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy

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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("perestroika" is a kind of...):

economic policy (a government policy for maintaining economic growth and tax revenues)