perestroika

Perestroika was an effort to make the economy more efficient. One of the people who used this was Gorbachev, he wanted for the Russians to be able to live on their own. Using this policy the Russians got to manage there own stores rather than the officials, they also got to say how much product they got to sell not the officials.

Information provided by: World Cultures A Global Mosaic Chapter 34 Section 1 pg.746 http://www.cliobook.nl/antiqbook/1046.jpg