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Quotes from Perestroika: New Thinking For Our Country and the World — Mikhail Gorbachev

1931–2022 Russia

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If the Russian word "perestroika" has easily entered the international lexicon, this is due to more than just interest in what is going on in the Soviet Union. Now the whole world needs restructuring, i.e. progressive development, a fundamental change.

Perestroika: New Thinking For Our Country and the World (1987)

The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice.

Perestroika: New Thinking For Our Country and the World (1987)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mikhail Gorbachev (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.