I'd love to. Meanwhile, I posted this elsewhere, but take a look:

You ignoring one very large glaring fact in that Reagan was at the helm when the USSR collapsed. Because of the high oil prices of the 1970s the Soviet leadership avoided serious economic reforms. Instead, it relied on oil revenues as a means of keeping its decrepit economy going. By the early 1980s the Soviet Union was becoming a hollow shell, with an unreformed and increasingly backward industrial base producing outmoded pre-computer armaments. The Reagan administration saw this as a means to their end. A central instrument for putting pressure on the Soviet Union was Reagan’s massive defense build-up, which raised defense spending from $134 billion in 1980 to $253 billion in 1989. This raised American defense spending to 7 percent of GDP, dramatically increasing the federal deficit. Yet in its efforts to keep up with the American defense build-up, the Soviet Union was compelled in the first half of the 1980s to raise the share of its defense spending from 22 percent to 27 percent of GDP, while it froze the production of civilian goods at 1980 levels. Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, some comparing it in substance to the Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster Star Wars.l, had as its main effect to demonstrate U. S. technological superiority over the Soviet Union and its ability to expand the arms race into space. This helped convince the Soviet leadership under Gorbachev to throw in the towel and bid for a de-escalation of the arms race. Particularly effective was the Reagan administration’s support for the mujahideen that were fighting against the Soviet forces in Afghanistan. Reagan was determined to make Afghanistan the Soviet Vietnam. Therefore in 1986 he decided to provide the mujahideen with portable surface-to-air Stinger missiles, which proved devastatingly effective in increasing Soviet air losses (particularly helicopters). The war in Afghanistan cost the United States about $1 billion per annum in aid to the mujahideen; it cost the Soviet Union eight times as much, helping bankrupt its economy.

Reagan was able to reduce the flow of Western technology to the Soviet Union, as well to limit Soviet natural gas exports to Western Europe. One of the most effective ways in which his economic policies weakened the Soviet Union was by helping bring about a drastic fall in the price of oil in the 1980s, thereby denying the Soviet Union large inflows of hard currency. Many soviet officials freely state Reagan's unrelenting pressure caused the Soviet Union to collapse. It was in decline during the cater years but Reagan set out as a specific plan to destroy the USSR and did not give in until it happened. People that lived through that era still remember the nagging thought that there would be nuclear war one day with Russia and Reagan set out to eliminate the threat.