Gorbymania

Gorbymania

English

Etymology

Gorby +‎ -mania

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.
   • 1992, Claude E Barfield, Mark Perlman, Industry, Services, and Agriculture: The United States Faces a United Europe,

     While in Bonn, at the time of Gorbymania, I fell in with part of the Russian entourage.

   • 1994, Yevgenia Albats, Catherine Fitzpatrick, The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia,

     Western readers stricken by Gorbymania and with only limited knowledge of the nuances of the Soviet power structure found such "exposes" shocking.