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Gorbachevian, a.|gɔːbəˈtʃɛvɪən, -ˈtʃɒv-|
Also Gorbachovian.
[f. the name of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (b. 1931), Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985–90) and later President (1990–91), + -ian.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Mikhail Gorbachev or the policies associated with him, esp. those of glasnost and perestroika.
1984Washington Post 28 Dec. a17/1 In America the nonsense is more esoteric. It has to do with a current Gorbachevian preoccupation: President Reagan's Star Wars proposal for nuclear defense. 1986Times 28 May 13/2 The campaign, which one diplomat called ‘Gorbachovian’, was causing a good deal of fear among bureaucrats. 1987Daily Tel. 27 July 13/1 Under the Gorbachevian loosening of constraints there are occasions when peaceful political protest is permitted. 1988New Scientist 22 Sept. 70/2 The old stories about a nation bereft of bath plugs have been replaced by Gorbachovian symbols of market failings. 1991New Republic 9 Sept. 8/1 In Eastern European..countries the force of the Gorbachevian contradiction was blunted. |