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перестройка
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Russian
Etymology
From пере- (pere-, “over, over again”) + стро́йка (strójka, “construction”).
Pronunciation
Noun
перестро́йка • (perestrójka) f inan (genitive перестро́йки, nominative plural перестро́йки, genitive plural перестро́ек, relational adjective перестро́ечный)
- rebuilding, reconstruction
- reorganization, restructuring, reformation
- reorientation
- perestroika (a program of political and economic reform carried out in the Soviet Union in the 1980s)
Declension
Related terms
- перестра́ивать (perestráivatʹ), перестро́ить (perestróitʹ)
Descendants
- → Armenian: պերեստրոյկա (perestroyka)
- → Danish: perestrojka
- → German: Perestroika
- → English: perestroika
- → French: perestroïka, pérestroïka
- → Japanese: ペレストロイカ (peresutoroika)
- → Korean: 페레스트로이카 (pereseuteuroika)
- → Polish: pieriestrojka, pierestrojka
See also
- гла́сность (glásnostʹ)
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