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The paper examines the political, economic, and geopolitical implications of the fall of the Soviet Union on the nations of the Middle East. The paper concludes that while Russian influence has declined greatly, it is still an important player in the current struggles in the region.

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"The impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union on the Middle East has been enormous politically, economically, militarily and culturally. The history of the entire 19th century was greatly altered by the emergence of the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution established control of the immense Czarist Russian Empire. But its ramifications for the Middle East were most dramatically expressed only with the rise of the Soviet Union as a rival superpower..."

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