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Uh, it kinda did. Russia under the tsar was unindustrialized, starving, losing a war, uneducated, mostly peasant farmers. Russians under the tsar had no say in their government and no hope for a brighter future.
Under the Soviets, the Russians abandoned one war, won two, educated their populace, industrialized, gave them (minimal) social mobility, and even fed them (after a while, anyway, no one's saying the Holodomor didn't happen). Until the end, the general trend of life in the Soviet Union was improvement.
The bolsheviks siezed a Russia tilled by wooden plows and left it with nuclear piles, the undisputed second-most-powerful nation on the face of the earth. In eighty years. The commies weren't nice folks, but things did get better under them.