To What Extent Did the United States and the Administrations

question 74

Essay

To what extent did the United States and the administrations of Reagan and Bush contribute to the collapse of the Soviet Union? To what extent was it product of internal changes in the Soviet Union itself, especially those sponsored by Mikhail Gorbachev?

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Definitions:

False Consensus Effect

The tendency to overestimate how much other people share our beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.

Opinions

Personal beliefs or judgments that are not necessarily based on fact or knowledge, reflecting individual perspectives.

Self-Serving Bias

A common human tendency to attribute positive events to one's own character but attribute negative events to external factors.

Internal Attributions

The process of ascribing the cause of one's own or others' behavior to personal traits, dispositions, or abilities, rather than to external factors.