Perestroika.

Manage | August 1, 1989| | Copyright

Perestroika

Perestroika, we are told, means "restructuring" in English. The need to restructure implies that something is--in its present form--weak, or old and out of date, or failing in any of a multitude of ways to function as it was initially designed. The "glasnost," or "openness," with which Mikhail Gorbachev examines the current state of his socialist nation and reveals historical causes contributing to its failings will be a shock to some readers. An example, Mikhail says is "one specific feature of socialism...the high degree of social protection in our ...

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