1.   The contrast with the eastbound run told you all you needed to know about the Soviet collapse.

2.   Alternatively, the analysts argued that a Soviet collapse needed to be avoided at all costs because the resulting chaos would threaten global stability.

3.   But the Soviet collapse has also altered moral perspectives.

4.   Citing the strife in neighboring Georgia and Azerbaijan since the Soviet collapse, Ter-Petrossian suggested that he was the only barrier between calm and chaos in Armenia.

5.   He appears to have lost considerable support as a result of the economic crisis that followed the Soviet collapse.

6.   However, should China suffer the same kind of economic downturn that led to the Soviet collapse, all bets are off.

7.   Instead, Armenia never recovered from the Soviet collapse.

8.   In the years after the Soviet collapse, the rough-hewn and hot-tempered Gorbenko rose from the waterfront, where he ran the docks as port manager.

9.   It is also common to hear Cubans argue that the economic crisis spawned by the Soviet collapse has resulted in a corresponding crisis in the Cuban family.

10.   It is an undertaking that suffered major setbacks in the first decade after the Soviet collapse.