USSR: The Doomed Empire

Part I of Essay
Introduction: The 1940's and the next four decades after, were a time of bitter struggle between the US and the Soviet Union. National identity as well as ideological differences brought both countries to the brink of nuclear war, a revolutionary style of warfare c ....

Part II of Essay
.... necessarily because the US was stronger and out muscled the Soviets militarily. The end of the Cold War was primarily due to economic factors. What America proved was that the economy works best when the government stays out and individuals within the society do the work.2 It is only the individuals within the society that truly understand what products are in demand. Under Communist regime a few select rulers decide what are the needs of the society, what resources are their country's scarcities, and how to obtain these scarcities. Fi ....