The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 11 letter word PERESTROIKA
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result PERESTROIKA
- Operate with risk new economic policy
- Nasty Tories digging into benefit with a particular economic policy
- Israeli leader needing Russian vehicle for programme of reforms
- Operate with risk in order to make political restructuring
- Operate risk performing reconstruction
- A bloke inhibiting others with a reformist approach?
- Assembly of peers, triumvirate reforming economic policy?
- In revolt, rioters peak and form a political movement
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "political restructuring" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case political restructuring = perestroika.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PERESTROIKA mean?
PERESTROIKA noun- (singularity theory) A situation where a small variation of parameters leads to a sudden change in properties.
- A program of political and economic reform carried out in the Soviet Union in the 1980s and early 1990s under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev.
- The period of time in the Soviet Union during which these reforms were carried out and in effect.