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• n  an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union; intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy

• In this decade of perestroika, Ronald Reagan and Russia's Mikhail Gorbachev each claimed the Man of the Year distinction twice; also featured was another woman, Corazon Aquino.
• Together with Reagan she pushed Mikhail Gorbachev to pursue his perestroika policy to its limits and so fatally to undermine the self-confidence of the Soviet elite.
• That is the legacy of perestroika.

News & Articles

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• Walker's World: China's worried elites
  Paris (UPI) Aug 26, 2013 Not since Mikhail Gorbachev began speaking of "Glasnost" and "Perestroika" in what turned out to be the twilight years of the Soviet Union has there been such ferment among policy intellectuals. In Washington and Berlin, Tokyo and Paris, Seoul and New Delhi, policymakers and their advisers are arguing about what's really going on in China. The source of the latest debate ...
  Aug. 28, 2013 - Space War

Quotes

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• Adam Michnik in FOXNews
  I don't have the slightest doubt that it was Gorbachev and his policy of glasnost and perestroika that opened the gates for the great changes that first took place in our country and then in this part of the continent,Michnik said.
• Mikhail Gorbachev in Reuters
  Modernisation is the key word,the last Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev told Reuters in an interview this month. "If you remember, perestroika started when we understood how far behind we had fallen. Russia is right now facing some very...
• Tarasov in RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
  Compared to late perestroika and the period that immediately followed perestroika -- until 1993-1994 -- there has been a massive rollback in terms of the possibilities to defend one's rights through democratic means,Tarasov says. "When...