perestroika
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian перестро́йка (perestrójka, “restructuring”).
Inflected forms:
form: perestroikas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
examples: 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.
[Gorbachev] did not champion perestroika and glasnost alone; much of the nomenklatura had decided that the Soviet economic and social model was dysfunctional, corrupt and endemically inefficient and had to change.
gloss: The period of time in the Soviet Union during which these reforms were carried out and in effect.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
gloss: A situation where a small variation of parameters leads to a sudden change in properties.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: doi moi
glasnost
Derived words: antiperestroika
Perestroikan
Salinastroika
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: بِيرِيسْتْرُويْكَا
roman: bīrīstrūykā
lang: Armenian
word: պերեստրոյկա
roman: perestroyka
lang: Azerbaijani
word: yenidənqurma
lang: Belarusian
word: перабудо́ва
roman: pjerabudóva
lang: Bulgarian
word: перестро́йка
roman: perestrójka
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 經濟改革 /经济改革
roman: jīngjì gǎigé
lang: Czech
word: přestavba
lang: Czech
word: perestrojka
lang: Danish
word: perestrojka
lang: Dutch
word: perestrojka
lang: Erzya
word: одстеема
roman: odstejema
lang: Esperanto
word: perestrojko
lang: Estonian
word: perestroika
lang: Finnish
word: perestroika
lang: Finnish
word: uudelleenrakentaminen
lang: French
word: perestroïka
lang: Georgian
word: პერესტროიკა
roman: ṗeresṭroiḳa
lang: Georgian
word: გარდაქმნა
roman: gardakmna
lang: German
word: Perestroika
lang: German
word: Umbau
lang: German
word: Umgestaltung
lang: Greek
word: περεστρόικα
roman: perestróika
lang: Hebrew
word: פֶּרֶסְטְרוֹיְקָה
roman: perestroika
lang: Hindi
word: पेरेस्ट्रोइका
roman: peresṭroikā
lang: Hungarian
word: peresztrojka
lang: Ido
word: perestroika
lang: Indonesian
word: perestroika
lang: Italian
word: perestroika
lang: Japanese
word: ペレストロイカ
roman: peresutoroika
lang: Kazakh
word: қайта құру
roman: qaita qūru
lang: Korean
word: 페레스트로이카
roman: pereseuteuroika
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: perestroyka
lang: Latvian
word: perestroika
lang: Lithuanian
word: perestroika
lang: Lithuanian
word: persitvarkymas
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Perestroika
lang: Malay
word: perestroika
lang: Marathi
word: पेरेस्ट्रॉइका
roman: peresṭrŏikā
lang: Mongolian
word: перестройка
roman: perestrojka
lang: Norwegian
word: perestrojka
lang: Persian
word: پرسترویکا
roman: perestroykâ
lang: Polish
word: pieriestrojka
lang: Polish
word: pierestrojka
lang: Portuguese
word: perestroika
lang: Romanian
word: perestroika
lang: Russian
word: перестро́йка
roman: perestrójka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: перестро̑јка
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: престројка
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: perestrȏjka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: prestrojka
lang: Slovak
word: prestavba
lang: Slovak
word: perestrojka
lang: Slovene
word: perestrojka
lang: Spanish
word: perestroika
lang: Swedish
word: perestrojka
lang: Tagalog
word: perestrojka
lang: Thai
word: การปรับเปลี่ยนโครงสร้าง
roman: gaan bpràp bplìan kroong sâang
lang: Turkish
word: perestroyka
lang: Ukrainian
word: перебудо́ва
roman: perebudóva
lang: Vietnamese
word: perestroika
lang: Yiddish
word: פּערעסטרויקע
roman: perestroyke