From the beginning of the Perestroika, many starry-eyed members of the intelligentsia believed that from now on, everything with us would be "like in the West".
Source: tatoeba (3699601)
Perestroika
//pɛɹ.ɪˈstɹɔɪ.kə//
Synonyms for "perestroika"
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10 entriesTranslations
61 translations across 50 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- بِيرِيسْتْرُويْكَا noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Armenian
1 entries- պերեստրոյկա noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- yenidənqurma noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Belarusian
1 entries- перабудо́ва noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Bulgarian
1 entries- перестро́йка noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 經濟改革 /经济改革 noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Czech
2 entries- perestrojka noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
- přestavba noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Danish
1 entries- perestrojka noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Dutch
1 entries- perestrojka noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Erzya
1 entries- одстеема noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Esperanto
1 entries- perestrojko noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Estonian
1 entries- perestroika noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Finnish
2 entries- perestroika noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
- uudelleenrakentaminen noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
French
1 entries- perestroïka noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Georgian
2 entries- გარდაქმნა noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
- პერესტროიკა noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
German
3 entries- Perestroika noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
- Umbau noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
- Umgestaltung noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Greek
1 entries- περεστρόικα noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Hebrew
1 entries- פֶּרֶסְטְרוֹיְקָה noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Hindi
1 entries- पेरेस्ट्रोइका noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Hungarian
1 entries- peresztrojka noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Ido
1 entries- perestroika noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Indonesian
1 entries- perestroika noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Italian
1 entries- perestroika noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Japanese
1 entries- ペレストロイカ noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Kazakh
1 entries- қайта құру noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Korean
1 entries- 페레스트로이카 noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Latvian
1 entries- perestroika noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Lithuanian
2 entries- perestroika noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
- persitvarkymas noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Perestroika noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Malay
1 entries- perestroika noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Marathi
1 entries- पेरेस्ट्रॉइका noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Mongolian
1 entries- перестройка noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- perestroyka noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Norwegian
1 entries- perestrojka noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Persian
1 entries- پرسترویکا noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Polish
2 entries- pierestrojka noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
- pieriestrojka noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Portuguese
1 entries- perestroika noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Romanian
1 entries- perestroika noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Russian
1 entries- перестро́йка noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- perestrȏjka noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
- prestrojka noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
- перестро̑јка noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
- престројка noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Slovak
2 entries- perestrojka noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
- prestavba noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Slovene
1 entries- perestrojka noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Spanish
1 entries- perestroika noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Swedish
1 entries- perestrojka noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Tagalog
1 entries- perestrojka noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Thai
1 entries- การปรับเปลี่ยนโครงสร้าง noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Turkish
1 entries- perestroyka noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Ukrainian
1 entries- перебудо́ва noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Vietnamese
1 entries- perestroika noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Yiddish
1 entries- פּערעסטרויקע noun (reform in the Soviet Union in 1980s)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Gorbachev would introduce glasnost (openness and freedom) and perestroika (economic restructuring) to Russia under his tenure, ultimately freeing thousands of political prisoners and dissidents and trying to address the shortages in food and goods that had become the hallmarks of the failing Soviet economy.
Source: wiktionary
[Gorbachev] did not champion perestroika and glasnost alone; much of the nomenklatura had decided that the Soviet economic and social model was dysfunctional, corrupt and endemically inefficient and had to change.
Source: wiktionary
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