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.
As factories stood idle and famine raged in the countryside, Vladimir Lenin instituted the New Economic Policy (NEP) in 1921 to infuse energy and direction into the fledgling Communist- controlled economy. NEP retreated from Communist orthodoxy and opened up the Soviet monolith economically.