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perestroika
perestroika , Soviet economic and social policy of the late 1980s. Perestroika [restructuring] was the term attached to the attempts (1985-91) by Mikhail Gorbachev to transform the stagnant, inefficient command economy of the Soviet Union into a decentralized market-oriented economy. Industrial ... Read more
glasnost
glasnost , Soviet cultural and social policy of the late 1980s. Following his ascension to the leadership of the USSR in 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev began to promote a policy of openness in public discussions about current and historical problems. The policy was termed glasnost [openness]. The bruta... Read more
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev , 1931-, Soviet political leader. Born in the agricultural region of Stavropol, Gorbachev studied law at Moscow State Univ., where in 1953 he married a philosophy student, Raisa Maksimovna Titorenko (1932?-99). Returning to Stavropol, he moved gradually upward in the lo... Read more
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Rus. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, former republic. It was established in 1922 and dissolved in 1991. The Soviet Union was the first state to be based on Marxist socialism (see also Marxism ; communism ). Until 1989 the Communist ... Read more
communism
communism fundamentally, a system of social organization in which property (especially real property and the means of production) is held in common. Thus, the ejido system of the indigenous people of Mexico and the property-and-work system of the Inca were both communist, although the former wa... Read more
Russia
Russia officially the Russian Federation, Rus. Rossiya, republic (2005 est. pop. 143,420,000), 6,591,100 sq mi (17,070,949 sq km). The country is bounded by Norway and Finland in the northwest; by Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, and Ukraine in the west; by Georgia and Azerbaijan in the southwest; a... Read more

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Perestroika
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History PERESTROIKA Perestroika was the term given to the reform process launched in the Soviet...Gorbachev in 1985. Meaning "reconstruction" or "restructuring," perestroika was a concept that was both ambiguous and malleable. Its ambiguity...
perestroika
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition perestroika , Soviet economic and social policy of the late 1980s. Perestroika [restructuring] was the term attached to the...democratize the Communist party organization. By 1991, perestroika was on the wane, and after the failed August...
Yegor Kuz'mich Ligachev
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...advocate of a more conservative approach to perestroika but was ousted from command in 1990...little good during the past five years of perestroika. " At the Congress, Ligachev presented...advocacy of a more conservative approach to perestroika (restructuring). Until the 1990 party...
Full Economic Accounting
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...economic accounting was a cornerstone of perestroika, regarded as an important measure to...accountability during the period of perestroika appeared more serious. Under the system...making firm's assets. Prior to perestroika, the khozrachet system gave lip service...
New Political Thinking
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...Initially, as in Gorbachev's 1987 book, Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the...glasnost (openness or transparency), perestroika (literally reconstruction, but a term...gorbachev, mikhail sergeyevich; perestroika bibliography Brown, Archie (ed...
Ligachev, Yegor Kuzmich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...past. While Ligachev publicly endorsed perestroika in general terms, he opposed Gorbachev...identified with the orthodox critique of perestroika provided by Nina Andreyeva in early...gorbachev, mikhail sergeyevich; perestroika bibliography Harris, Jonathan. (1989...
Glasnost
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...his policy of economic restructuring (perestroika) and to outmaneuver his political opponents...temporary economic hardship that his perestroika program of reforms unavoidably involved...1991. Milestones in Glasnost and Perestroika . Washington, DC: Brookings Institution...
Aganbegyan, Abel Gezevich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...Nikolai Ryzhkov on the other. During perestroika Aganbegyan became rector of the Academy...also: five-hundred-day plan; perestroika bibliography Aganbegyan, Abel. (1989). Inside Perestroika. New York: Harper & Row. Aslund...
Kravchuk, Leonid Makarovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...groups, such as the Popular Front for Perestroika in Ukraine ( Rukh ), only to appropriate...Committee on Foreign Relations. See also: perestroika; ukraine and ukrainians bibliography...Andrew Wilson. (1994). Ukraine: Perestroika to Independence. Edmonton: Canadian...
Yakovlev, Alexander Nikolayevich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...leadership during the first five years of perestroika. During the 1960s and early 1970s Yakovlev...often characterized as the architect of perestroika, but it is impossible to determine...sergeyevich; ligachev, yegor kuzmich; perestroika bibliography Harris, Jonathan. (1990...

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perestroika
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History perestroika (‘restructuring’...to the August coup of 1991. Ultimately, perestroika failed because Gorbachev sought to correct...so that he became the ultimate victim of perestroika.
glasnost and perestroika
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History glasnost and perestroika The concepts of ‘openness’ and ‘...became Soviet leader in 1985. The concepts are described in his book Perestroika (1987). The twin processes aimed to reduce inefficiency and corruption...
Mindadze, Aleksandr
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...audience. The moral investigations of Abdrashitov and Mindadze preceded perestroika by several years. In the early 1980s they were already making films in the spirit of perestroika—strongly critical of serious moral and social problems...
Gorbachev, Mikhail S.
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Gorbachev's efforts to carry out perestroika (see GLASNOST AND PERESTROIKA ), the economic and social reform of Soviet society, led to a gradual process of liberalization and...
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...to reform the Communist state, glasnost (opening) and perestroika (restructuring). Moreover, the Supreme Soviet , which...Honecker or Husák to prevent demands for glasnost and perestroika in their own countries, hard though they tried. In contrast...
Malenkaya Vera
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...x2013;1991, the success of Little Vera is incomparable with other films that became prominent in the first years of perestroika (thaw). Various surveys indicate this film was more popular than all the others. It can be considered a clear example...
Teni Zabytykh Predkov
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Im Schatten von vergessenen Ahnen," in Filmfaust (Frankfurt), October-November 1985. Kroll, Jack, "The Pas De Perestroika: A New Generation of Soviet Artists Try to Undo the Damage of Half Century of Stalinist Repression and Socialist Realism...
Russian Orthodox Church
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...Constitution of 1936, but activities and ‘propaganda’ outside regular worship were forbidden. Glasnost and perestroika led to a remarkable resurgence of Christian confidence, allied to the role of other Christian churches (notably the Roman...
nomenklatura
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...an élite within Soviet society with special rights and privileges, such as access to special shops, hospitals, or schools. Nomenklatura was one of the targets of Mikhail Gorbachev's programme of GLASNOST AND PERESTROIKA .
Iliescu, Ion
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...and made director of a publishing company. A student colleague of Gorbachev , he advocated the introduction of reform ( perestroika> ) in 1987. On 22 December 1989 he resurfaced to become head of the National Salvation Front (NSF). In elections...

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Perestroika (USA) Inc.: a strategic new business link with the Soviet Union. (International Trade Supplement)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 5/13/1991; 700+ words ; PERESTROIKA (USA) INC. A STRATEGIC NEW BUSINESS LINK WITH THE SOVIET UNION Perestroika USA Inc., a business consulting and trading...with U.S., European and Asian firms, Perestroika (USA) Inc. plays an important role in the...
How Cult Internet Character Mr. Perestroika Divided N.Y.U.'s Political Science Department.(Media&Society)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 1/7/2002; 700+ words ; ...blindsided by a mysterious character calling himself (or herself) "Mr. Perestroika." Mr. Perestroika's weapon? A cutting e-mail document called the "Perestroika Manifesto" claiming that a small cabal-or "'coterie' of faculty...
RUSSIA: COOL RECEPTION FOR GORBACHEV'S BOOK ON PERESTROIKA
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 3/6/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...and economic restructuring known as perestroika has led to a new debate -- and more...reception to a speech on the book and perestroika he gave at an event at the Russian University...status. "It's important to understand perestroika as an urgent necessity arising from...
Perestroika Under the Tsars.
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 12/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...essay W. E. Mosse reminds us that perestroika and glasnost' too have a long history...strain of democratic egalitarianism. Perestroika, according to Mosse, was - and is...logical contradiction' exists between perestroika and glasnost'. Whilst the former...
We Had Our Perestroika. It's High Time for Yours.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/7/2009; 700+ words ; ...Americans need their own change -- a perestroika, not like the one in my country, but an American perestroika -- and the reaction has been markedly...reactions have come from the opponents of perestroika, people with short memories and a...
Perestroika. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Manage; 8/1/1989; ; 700+ words ; Perestroika Perestroika, we are told, means "restructuring" in English. The need to...public apathy resulting from excessive centralized management. Perestroika to the rescue. While never, never deviating from the concept that...
Perestroika and after: Comrade Ligachev tells his side. (Interview)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 12/2/1991; ; 700+ words ; ...understood, political figures in the perestroika drama that began to unfold in the Soviet...Number 2 leader as the archrival of perestroika, a die-hard conservative, even a...instrumental in initiating the reforms known as perestroika. By 1988, however, Ligachev began...
All in favour. (perestroika in Eastern Europe)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 7/9/1988; 700+ words ; PERESTROIKA will be achieved," a delegate coming...good Communists now say they support perestroika. The question is what exactly, between...allies now claim to be in the vanguard of perestroika. The exception is Stalinist Romania...
Perestroika: new thinking for our country and the world.
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 12/14/1987; ; 700+ words ; Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the...any two attempts at national renewal. Perestroika is the name that has been given to the...country was "verging on crisis.' The perestroika plan was formally inaugurated at a Party...
Perestroika At a Crawl
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/6/1989; ; 700+ words ; ...stronger than its growing frustration with perestroika. That result provides Mikhail Gorbachev...Fortunately for Gorbachev and for perestroika, political reforms do not require the...years is proof of the unpopularity of perestroika now. Abel Aganbegyan, one of the economic...