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Glasnost and perestroika are obvious examples of old Russian words that have acquired new, revolutionary significance and been borrowed with their new meanings.
As the winds of perestroika blew in from Moscow, Kádár was removed from power in 1988, and, in 1989, the formation of opposition parties was legalized.
But since both perestroika and glasnost' from our point of view do not mean `restructuring' and `publicity' generally, as the English words do to us, but rather refer to reforms specifically initiated by Gorbachev, the Russian words, particularly glasnost', are usually borrowed into English unaltered (except in pronunciation).
Currently two Russian words are challenging correspondents, among others, to find English equivalents: perestroika and glasnost '. The first of these Gorbachevian buzzwords can be handily calqued into English as `restructuring.
But the way in which names were changed in the period of destalinization differed significantly from the reversion to tsarist names in the period of glasnost and perestroika.