ThirdTerm wrote:What the Soviet Union lacked was computer technologies which had been developed independently in the US and America had a monopoly on information technology
Not really. The Soviets were certainly behind in terms of computing/hardware but they were typically only a generation or so behind, and in 'strategic' areas this could be offset by allocation of limited resources or import substitution. The significant gap didn't really occur until the 1980s, and that was more likely to have been a symptom of a wider economic stagnation rather than a US monopoly.
ThirdTerm wrote:the Soviets were bullied into renouncing their Communist ideology in exchange for sophisticated Western technologies
...you do realise the Soviets were trading with the West for decades prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, including things like computers etc.?
The big ticket trade item ended up being wheat and other agricultural products, rather than technology.
ThirdTerm wrote:the collapse of the Soviet Union was caused by America's strategies of containment aimed at Russia
The whole concept of containment as a means on defeating the Soviet Union (rather than to just well... keep it behind the lines) requires that you assume that the Soviet Union needed to expand to survive. Yet the Soviet Union did grow etc. without pursuing an expansionist policy through much of its history. A look at its trade balances with 'friendly' nations also highlights that the Soviets were not leeching off them to sustain their economy or something, in fact it was more the other way around.