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  1. Russian `restructuring' in Soviet politics,
  2. the wide-ranging economic and government
  3. reforms initiated during Mikhail Gorbachev's
  4. leadership of the Soviet state and its
  5. institutions. It is also the title of a book
  6. by Gorbachev 1987. Originally, in the
  7. economic sphere, perestroika was conceived as
  8. involving the `switching onto a track of
  9. intensive development' by automation and
  10. improved labour efficiency. It has evolved to
  11. attend increasingly to market indicators and
  12. incentives (`market socialism') and a gradual
  13. dismantlement of the Stalinist
  14. central-planning system, with decision-taking
  15. authority being devolved to self-financing
  16. enterprises.
  17.