perestroika

Russian Talk: Culture and Conversation during Perestroyka.

True faith in God came to her much later, during the perestroyka times in the 1980s, when the atrocities and lies of the past decades became known.

Before perestroyka, the term "public opinion" was used to describe the position of all 'progressive human kind' on one or another hot topic.

Under glasnost and perestroyka his venture into history became a form of public dissent and the vehicle of his own ideological emancipation.

During the perestroyka period (1987-91), despite the intellectual and political liberation unleashed by Gorbachev's reforms, the patriarchal order of society and official attitude toward women as a specific part of the labor force remained largely intact.