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The Bush administration helped bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union by
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By pursuing cautious diplomatic engagement: negotiating arms reductions (START I), managing German reunification and reassuring Soviet security concerns, refusing to intervene during the August 1991 coup (which helped undermine hardliners), and quickly recognizing and working with the newly independent republics as the USSR dissolved.
Historians note these actions helped make the Soviet breakup relatively peaceful, though the primary drivers were internal Soviet economic and political failures and Gorbachev’s reforms.
Historians note these actions helped make the Soviet breakup relatively peaceful, though the primary drivers were internal Soviet economic and political failures and Gorbachev’s reforms.
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