perestroika

How To Use perestroika In A Sentence

• The Solidarity movement, glasnost, and perestroika contributed to the European political transition of the 1990s.
• This was the inspirational leader who instigated glasnost and perestroika, and who, through frank talks with Reagan, brokered a new trust with the West.
• The problem of unemployment during perestroika is not an easy one to solve. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
• Both glasnost and perestroika appeared to be sweeping the whole of Eastern Europe in the direction of global capitalism, or at least towards an opening to the practices of capitalist globalization.
• Outside the Soviet Union, perestroika and glasnost spread among people who were resentful of Soviet domination and worried about economic collapse.
• It was his first time back in 53 years, and we were there to press for the rehabilitation of Trotsky and Serge in the glory days of glasnost and perestroika.
• Glasnost and perestroika in the Soviet Union kicked off a debate about restructuring society in East Germany, too.
• Sanford Schram identifies some of the strands of the Perestroika critique in these terms: "Some focus on the overly abstract nature of much of the research done today, some on the lack of nuance in decontextualized, large-sample empirical studies, others on the inhumaneness of thinking about social relations in causal terms, and still others on the ways in which contemporary social science all too often fails to produce the kind of knowledge that can meaningfully inform social life" Monroe : 103. The Perestroika debate in political science
• While condemning the Soviet coup, Marchais had described it as understandable in view of the failure of perestroika.
• The reform process known as perestroika and glasnost took off slowly in the Ukraine.