ninist ideology to provide a viable basis for the Soviet regime and its actions.
             The degeneration of the Bolshevik dictatorship into "power that is not limited by any laws, not bound by any rules, and is based directly on force" compromised and impoverished the Communist ideas and plans for social development as an order and continuous process of social growth.
             Bolshevism lost in the course of its history the political, moral, and intellectual standing in the countless inhuman excesses of War Communism and forced collectivization, in the extensive purges and Moscow trials, in the Hitler-Stalin pact, and in the autocratic, cruel, and oppressive treatment of the Soviet people after the Second World War.
             The growing recognition of the terrible inefficiencies of the Soviet system, with its social decay and the faltering command economy, was reflected in Gorbachevs catchword of "perestroika".
             George Urban: American Democracy Aided Communism's Collapse
             1. American rearmament under President Reagan, and especially the SDI project, conjured up for an already declining Soviet economy the prospect of so heavy an extra burden that the Soviet leadership was propelled to surrender Moscow's outposts in the colonial empire as well as its glacis in Central and Eastern Europe. President Reagan had caused the USSR to spend itse
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