Politics, History and Sociology
- Reconstruction Era of the United States, the period after the Civil War, 1865–77, especially regarding the defeated South
- Ministry of Reconstruction, a UK government department
- Critical reconstruction, a theory regarding the reconstruction of Berlin after the Berlin Wall
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation, a United States government agency from 1932–1957
- Economic reconstruction
- Reconstruction (law)
- Reconstruction Acts
- A literal translation of the Soviet/Russian term perestroika
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