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Comment: Perestroika.

  • UPSC 1991
  • 20 marks
  • Changing International Political Order

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Perestroika ("restructuring") was the programme of reform launched by Mikhail Gorbachev after he became General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party on 11 March 1985, and set out in his book Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World (1987). Its purpose was to save socialism, not end it: to revive a stagnating command…

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