perestroika
noun
per·e·stroi·ka ˌper-ə-ˈstrȯi-kə 
: the policy of economic and governmental reform instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union during the mid-1980s
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Whether or not a new perestroika is dawning, Russia’s leaders must outgrow power politics and recognize that force can’t secure their position either at home or abroad. 
Konstantin Dobrynin, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019 The revelation of scandals so demeaning to the security establishment indicates an erosion of state power of the sort that preceded the last perestroika. Konstantin Dobrynin, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019 Rather than policing the boundaries of respectable opinion, which are much narrower than the actual debates taking place, Times could use an ideological perestroika: to truly open itself up the breadth of opinion in America. Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2018 Democratization is out of the question: perestroika and glasnost are Putin’s nightmares. Leon Aron, National Review, 16 Feb. 2018
Konstantin Dobrynin, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019 The revelation of scandals so demeaning to the security establishment indicates an erosion of state power of the sort that preceded the last perestroika. Konstantin Dobrynin, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019 Rather than policing the boundaries of respectable opinion, which are much narrower than the actual debates taking place, Times could use an ideological perestroika: to truly open itself up the breadth of opinion in America. Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2018 Democratization is out of the question: perestroika and glasnost are Putin’s nightmares. Leon Aron, National Review, 16 Feb. 2018 Word History
Etymology
Russian perestroĭka, literally, restructuring
First Known Use
1986, in the meaning defined above