the bolshevik party sold itself as looking out for the interests of the common people, that's how it got its entire following during ww1/the civil war it claimed to be a replacement for the monarchy/provisional government that cared more about fighting the war than taking care of the "little people". if the bolsheviks couldn't deliver on the prommises they used to take power they deserved to collapse.  sadly it was the common people of russia who suffered the most in the 90s as the ex-soviet government handed the economy over to malevolent jewish oligarchs leading to a plummeting living standards and life expectancy and a rise in "deaths of despair" the same the west is experi3encing now.
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