Y’know….after reading through responses to this thread, I see a variety of interpretations of what communism is. It is true that a substantial number of Russians miss the predictability, the security of communism. The gov’t gave them a job, food and a place to live. For many, the bill of rights was irrelevant; it was a set of ideas that the average Russia had little experience with having gone from the Czars, to Lenin, to Stalin with no stops at Rousseau or Jefferson and Franklin.
When the communist party was outlawed by Yeltsin in 1991, there was a yawning vacuum politically and economically, capitalism reared it's ugly head and the lust for power and wealth began (aided by lots of Russian oil and gas).
Do you think that the movers and shakers, the Putins, the Lisins, Potanins, Durovs, want to go back to five year plans. Not likely.
As to those misguided folk who espouse communism, they are fools. I doubt they understand what communism is.