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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, that is progressive development, a fundamental change.

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— Mikhail Gorbachev, talking about future change in the USSR and the world

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Gorbachev, Mikhail (2000). Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World. Harper & Row. p. 254. ISBN 0060390859.