Word: perestroikas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Black Sea region of western Georgia. Some 3,000 Interior Ministry troops were dispatched to help local police quiet the unrest. But the audacious mining walkout has presented Gorbachev with the most serious labor challenge he has had to face, and casts in graphic terms the cruel dilemma of perestroika: how to raise productivity and living standards at the same time...
Strikes are not technically illegal in the Soviet Union; the Marxist tenet that they are unnecessary in a proletarian paradise has not kept them from happening. Until the Gorbachev era, Communist rulers used bullets or gifts of consumer goods to quell unruly workers. But under the impact of perestroika and glasnost, work stoppages have become part of the economic landscape...
...coming out of a very serious crisis, the biggest test during the four years of perestroika," Gorbachev said...
...strikes dealt a serious blow to the economy, Gorbachev said, but he reassured his fellow Soviets that "our perestroika will give results despite the tests we are undergoing...
...least the Soviet leader recruited President Francois Mitterrand as an advocate of perestroika. "It is the duty of the democracies," said Mitterrand, to help Soviet reforms succeed...