perestroika

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Lamos was the first American director to stage a play with a Russian company in the early days of "perestroika" -- O'Neill's "Desire under the Elms" at Moscow's Pushkin Theater.

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  1. noun The restructuring of the Soviet economy and bureaucracy that began in the mid 1980s.

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  • Lamos was the first American director to stage a play with a Russian company in the early days of "perestroika" -- O'Neill's "Desire under the Elms" at Moscow's Pushkin Theater. —  BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
  • The Palestinians had their moment of perestroika, they had it when they democratically and out of their free will have elected a government to represent them. —  Palestine Blogs aggregator
  • Gorby basically was begging for an opportunity for Soviet institutions to survive through perestroika, and when he walked out, he knew it was the end of the Soviet Union. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • The term "perestroika" first appeared in a speech by Gorbachev on July 31, 1986 in which he referred to "perestroika in the political system." —  WhirledView
  • This meeting did take place after Gorbachev had unveiled the concept of "perestroika" at home - but neither perestroika nor glasnost appears on the Reykjavik agenda or in the declassified notes taken during the meeting. —  WhirledView
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  1. Russian perestroĭka : pere-, around, again (from Old Russian; see per1 in Indo-European roots) + stroĭka, construction (from stroit', to build, from Old Russian stroiti, from strojĭ, order; see ster-2 in Indo-European roots).
 

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