Home › Words › P › perestroikanperestroikanperestroikan means A member of the Perestroika Movement (political science).EtymologyFrom perestroika + -an.nounA member of the Perestroika Movement (political science).Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.perestroika 71% match — A program of political and economic reform carried out in the Soviet Union in the 1980s and early 1990s under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev. vs perestroikan →antiperestroika 61% match — Opposing perestroika. vs perestroikan →glasnost 54% match — 1980s and early 1990s policy of the Soviet Union under Gorbachev to allow more government transparency; often paired with perestroika vs perestroikan →proletarian 54% match — Of or relating to the proletariat. vs perestroikan →protoproletarian 51% match — Of or relating to a protoproletariat. vs perestroikan →glasnostian 51% match — Relating to glasnost. vs perestroikan →partocrat 50% match — A supporter of partocracy. vs perestroikan →reform 50% match — The change of something that is defective, broken, inefficient or otherwise negative, in order to correct or improve it vs perestroikan →