Perestroika was one of the policies introduced to the
Soviet Union by [Mikhail Gorbachev]
? in
1985. Perestroika was used to mean 'economic restructuring'. Gorbachev realised the Soviet Union economy was failing and felt the
communist system need not to be replaced, but to certainly be reformed, and this would be done by the process of perestroika. A key part of perestroika was to reduce the amount of money being spent on defence, and to do this Gorbachev felt the Soviet Union should;
See also glasnost.