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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.

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

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