The thickness of your blood depends on specialized blood cells, called platelets. After tissue damage, your platelets activate, clump together and begin to synthesize protein fibers that hold the cells together in a blood clot to prevents bleeding from the injury site.
Gorbachev implemented Glasnost to make the Soviet Union more free and more in line with other modern industrialized countries. Glasnost was a set of policies created in the late 1980s to: 1  Make the government of the USSR more transparent. 2  Increase accessibility to the affairs of the government.
Glasnost and perestroika. Mikhael Gorbachev, the 1980s Soviet ruler who oversaw glasnost and perestroika. Glasnost and perestroika were programs of reform that followed a dismal decade for people in the USSR.orbachevâs leadership began with immediate discussion, both public and private, about the need for major economic reform. Realising that meaningful economic reform was not possible without political change, Gorbachev announced a policy of perestroika, or ârestructuringâ (1986).