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Perestroika was defined in the following way by Mikhail Gorbachev in his book "Perestroika" (1987) Perestroika means overcoming the stagnation process, breaking down the braking mechanism, creating a dependable and effective mechanism for acceleration of social and economic progress and giving it greater dynamism.
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May 24, 2006 Perestroika led to the collapse of the Soviet economy. So what is perestroika?
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Throughout the early years of his rule, Gorbachev spoke of perestroika , but only in early 1987 did the slogan become a full-scale campaign and yield practical results. In the summer of 1990, Yeltsin, who had been elected chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Republic in May, backed a radical economic reform...
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Amazon.com: Families Before and After Perestroika: Russian and US Perspectives (9780898620856): James W. Maddock, M. Janice Hogan, Anatolyi I. Antonov,
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Amazon.com: Perestroika - Russian SFSR - Magnitogorsk: Books.
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A former high-ranking Communist functionary, Yakovlev managed to revise his ideological beliefs and became the mastermind of the Gorbachev perestroika. The moral authority he commanded among Russian democrats was as great as the hatred he inspired in proponents of the Soviet totalitarian regime.
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From modest beginnings at the Twenty-Seventh Party Congress in 1986, perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev's program of economic, political, and social restructuring, Boris Yeltsin, who had become Russia's first popularly elected president in June 1991, made the seat of government of his Russian republic, known as the White...
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