What primarily caused Russians in the 1980s to fear that the Soviet Union would collapse?

Gorbachev’s reforms in the 1980s, including perestroika and glasnost, loosened government control and brought rapid political and economic changes. Many people worried that these changes were moving faster than the country could manage and might cause the Soviet Union to break apart. So the best answer is “Changes were occurring too rapidly.”

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