«Perestroika from an Islamic perspective», by Fathi Yakan and Mona Haddad. A look at the Soviet Union under communism and the «perestroika», referring to the restructuring of the political and economic systems of the Soviet Union, first proposed by Brezhnev in 1979 then promoted by Gorbachev, which came to entail an awareness of economic markets and the ending of central planning. This work covers what that meant to Islamists, positive or negative.