Make the Soviet Union collapse 10 years earlier

Alright, I'm trying to make this alternate scenario for what if the Soviet Union collapsed in late 70's or early 80's, but I can't come up with good one. What are the most realistic causes for it to happen? How would it affect the whole world if it were to collapse say in 1981? Who would be the leader?
 
Alright, I'm trying to make this alternate scenario for what if the Soviet Union collapsed in late 70's or early 80's, but I can't come up with good one. What are the most realistic causes for it to happen? How would it affect the whole world if it were to collapse say in 1981? Who would be the leader?

I'm going to assume that a "WW3" response is not terribly constructive, thus.... how about Stalin lives longer, into the late 50's or early 60's, and has time to launch several more purges and generally muck it all up.
 
Could lower oil prices in the 1970s do the trick? Archie Brown in The Rise and Fall of Communism discusses how low oil prices in the 1980s damaged the Soviet economy shortly before the collapse.

Earlier reforms similar to Gorbachev's after all the old Soviet leaders die off might be another way to get an "early Soviet collapse" scenario. (Gorbachev was the only Soviet premier born after the Russian Revolution.)
 
Could lower oil prices in the 1970s do the trick? Archie Brown in The Rise and Fall of Communism discusses how low oil prices in the 1980s damaged the Soviet economy shortly before the collapse.

Earlier reforms similar to Gorbachev's after all the old Soviet leaders die off might be another way to get an "early Soviet collapse" scenario. (Gorbachev was the only Soviet premier born after the Russian Revolution.)
How many more years would've the Soviet Union lasted from 1973 crisis and in what way could've it collapsed? Rebellion? Peaceful attempts to reform by Brezhnev? And were there any real life Soviet members at the party where like or similar to Gorbachev in the 70's?
 
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