Perestroika was a policy of planned economic restructuring introduced by the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, in the 1980s. Its aim was to move the Soviet economy away from central planning towards a freer market-based economy, promoting efficiency and higher productivity.

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What Is Perestroika

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What is perestroika?

A) a policy of education improvement, in the last days of the former Soviet Union
B) the Russian word for railroad
C) improvement of the Russian environment
D) planned economic restructuring, an early move toward a freer market
E) greater openness, a policy in the 1980s that encouraged several republics to demand independence

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