Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·russian ·1986
Perestroika
from перестройка (perestroika)
- Meaning
- Restructuring — Gorbachev's economic reform programme.
- Source word
- перестройка (perestroika)
- Route into English
- Same Gorbachev era as glasnost; both became shorthand for late-Soviet reform.
- Arrived
- 1986
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