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The winding down of the US–Soviet rivalry, from the revolutions of 1989 to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

1989–1991

End of the Cold War. The winding down of the US–Soviet rivalry, from the revolutions of 1989 to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

1989–1991

The end of the Cold War, part of the Cold War.

The end of the Cold War, caused by the Strategic Defense Initiative.

According to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

The link to the Strategic Defense Initiative is disputed: Pavel Podvig (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 30 April 2013) argues from Soviet archival documents that SDI did not push the Soviet Union toward economic collapse; Serhii Plokhy calls the key American role in the Soviet demise a myth.

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