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Gorbymania en · NOUN

Etymology

From Gorby + -mania.

Meanings

1. (informal, uncountable) Enthusiasm for Mikhail Gorbachev, USSR head of state from 1985 to 1991, who introduced the liberalizing reforms of glasnost and perestroika.
   • While in Bonn, at the time of Gorbymania, I fell in with part of the Russian entourage. 1992, Claude E Barfield, Mark Perlman, Industry, Services, and Agriculture: The United States Faces a United Europe:
   • Western readers stricken by Gorbymania and with only limited knowledge of the nuances of the Soviet power structure found such "exposes" shocking. 1994, Yevgenia Albats, Catherine Fitzpatrick, The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia:

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