The End of the Cold War - A Russian View

I've written a 12 page paper on this subject, an approach closer to the Russian perspective than the predominant American one; Causes of the fall of the Soviet Union, relation between that and the end of the Cold War; an interesting read.

"The collapse of Nazi Germany has created a large power vacuum in the middle of Europe that needed to be filled. The former allies presented themselves in the following manner: The United States with its new president Harry S. Truman wanted to preserve the alliance but didn’t succeed; Stalin’s Soviet Union wanted to be remunerated for the Russian suffering in the war with territorial coin, while Churchill’s Great Britain wanted the prevention of a Soviet controlled Central Europe1."

It's in a .pdf format found here