But all of this is preliminary to asking and attempting to answer what clearly has become the hottest and most ideologically-fraught issue pertaining to the close of the Cold War, namely the extent to which America's acceleration of the arms race impacted the Soviet Union so as to hasten her fall from power...
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The other big theory which seeks to account for the fall of the Soviet Union deals primarily with what one might call a "toppling from within" brought on by the rush to reform. In other words, once Gorbyachev pried loose the gate to reform he discovered, to his dismay, that he inadvertently had opened a floodgate.
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The timeline of the collapse of the Soviet Union can be traced to September 13, ... I was not aware of the Nixon-Connely grain issue. That fleshes out the story of the fall of the Soviet empire. ... The disagreements on the comments are merely between discussing the root and proximate causes of Soviet collapse. The root cause,
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Introduction to our seven part series on the causes and reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union. ... Gorbachev a communist reformer was appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985. His appointment followed ... That is the fall of communism in the USSR and the collapse of the USSR itself.
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The Causes and Consequences of the Collapse of the Soviet Union ... Soviet Union - A Country Study (Area Handbook) ... Gorbachev Speech Dissolving the Soviet Union (USSR): Christmas 1991 (Public Purpose)
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Neither Western politics, nor public opinion, nor the mainstream of scientific experts on Eastern Europe contemplated even the possibility of the fall of the Soviet Union before the end of the Eighties. It was as if there existed a self-imposed conceptual ban. ... The main causes for the end of the Soviet Union, therefore,
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Dr Wiktor Zbigniew: The causes and the forces of the counterrevolution in Poland ... Communist Party of Cuba, Fidel Castro and Raul Castro: Cuba didn't fall, it's stronger by relying on its people ... Ammar Bagdache (Syrian Communist Party): Counter revolution in the Soviet Union...
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It was this invasion which would precipitate the fall of the Soviet Union: the inability of the Soviet Army to rely on any but its White Russian troops in the conflict exposed the searing racial and ethnic divisions which would later give rise to the breakup of the Soviet Union.
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