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Gorbymania

Gorbymania noun: enthusiasm for Mikhail Gorbachev, USSR head of state from 1985 to 1991, who introduced the liberalizing reforms of glasnost and perestroika.

Noun

Gorbymania (uncountable)

  1. (informal) 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

Forms of Gorbymania

alternative formGorby-mania

Origin of Gorbymania

From Gorby + -mania.

Questions about Gorbymania

What does Gorbymania mean?
Gorbymania means enthusiasm for Mikhail Gorbachev, USSR head of state from 1985 to 1991, who introduced the liberalizing reforms of glasnost and perestroika.
What part of speech is Gorbymania?
Gorbymania is a noun.

Words near Gorbymania in the dictionary

  1. gorblimy
  2. gorbuson
  3. gorbusons
  4. Gorby
  5. Gorby-mania
  6. Gorbymania
  7. Gorbys
  8. Gorbănești
  9. Gorce Mountains
  10. gorceixite
  11. Gorcenski

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