释义 |
perestroikaper‧e‧stroi‧ka /ˌperəˈstrɔɪkə/ noun [uncountable]  perestroikaOrigin: 1900-2000 Russian perestroit ‘to rebuild, reorganize’ - Had they been in vogue in 1951, the words perestroika and glasnost might have been used by observers.
- In July a Pravda editorial had attacked perestroika for creating a new bureaucracy without solving the old problems.
- More probably, the mass desertion is another sign of how the people have lost faith in perestroika and its unfulfilled promises.
- Supposing they are being formed into a new secret police - with the aim of destroying glasnost and perestroika?
- The deep recession that followed shows how painful true perestroika can be.
- The Gulf war could instead mark the beginning of a kind of Western perestroika.
- The passage of time required perestroika from the musicians themselves.
- The period of glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev led to a great burgeoning of group activity throughout the republics.
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