Glasnost was one the major political initiatives launched by Soviet Secretary-general Mikhail Gorbachev. For the first time in Soviet history, there was open discussion of many key political and key issues. Gorbachev´s intention was to reform the Communist system, to democratize it and make it less authoritarian. It was sort of a spring in public affairs. Nevertheless, a freer new atmosphere led to protests in many Soviet republics, nationalist sentiments were reborn, political instability ensued. In the last years of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev resembled more and more a wizard that had liberated forces he could not control anymore. His position became too weak after a conservative coup d´etat staged in Moscow. It failed but severely undermined his position and strengthened the standing of the president of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin. The Soviet Union broke apart in December 1991.
At the First Continental Congress, the delegates discussed boycotting British goods all together, but decided to send the Crown a list of their grievances in the hopes of getting the Intolerable Acts lifted.
A. Absolutely true The 1960's and 1970's were a time that new drugs like LSD came out and people started experimenting with sex and drugs which led to the sexual revolution.
