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date: 16 March 2025

Perestroika and Glasnost. 

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
Author(s):
Ben EklofBen Eklof

“Perestroika” (restructuring) was a term used by Mikhail Gorbachev in May 1985 shortly after he was selected at the age of fifty-four by the Soviet politburo to be general secretary of the ... ...

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