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Perestroïka

This word (which means ‘reconstruction’ in Russian) names the whole of the economic reforms carried out by Mikhail Gorbachov, the General Secretary of the Communist Party, in the USSR from the end of 1985. Its failure widely contributed to the end of the communist regime and the break up of the USSR in December 1991.

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