perestroika

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

• (US) IPA^(key): /pɛɹ.ɪˈstɹɔi.kə/

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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.

• antiperestroika
• Perestroikan
• Salinastroika

• doi moi
• glasnost

Borrowed from Russian перестро́йка (perestrójka).

• IPA^(key): /ˈperestroi̯kɑ/, [ˈpe̞re̞s̠tˌro̞i̯kɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -oikɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pe‧rest‧roi‧ka

perestroika

1. (historical) perestroika

• “perestroika”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

perestroika f (plural perestroikas)

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

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

• IPA^(key): /peɾesˈtɾoika/ [pe.ɾesˈt̪ɾoi̯.ka]
• Rhymes: -oika
• Syllabification: pe‧res‧troi‧ka

perestroika f (uncountable)

1. (historical) perestroika

• “perestroika”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014