This might be a better cite for the "oil shock" thesis: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24808741 https://www.jstor.org/stable/24808741 Assuming JSTOR still works

This might be a better cite for the "oil shock" thesis: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24808741 https://www.jstor.org/stable/24808741 Assuming JSTOR still works for anyone. Regardless, my thesis wasn't that the USSR collapsed entirely because of an oil shock. It was that the USSR had severe structural problems and couldn't weather adversities such as the oil shock.