Judging by the kind of society the Russians have been able to create for themselves and occasionally export to others (like the Baltics- since 1700's) these aspects, if they have ever been there, are not sufficient. The best description I ever came across of the social characteristics I am talking about, comes in Russian proverb
"Ty nachal'nik - ya der'mo, ya nachal'nik - ty der'mo" - "If you're the boss, I'm POS,if I'm the boss - you're POS". Now tell me what, if any, improvement would occur in such a system if that same arbitrary boss is sophisticated and cultured?
That saying was born for the Bolshaviks, just like: "Ti predyrivasya to chto ti nam platish, i mi predyrivayemsya to chto mi bydem rabotat."
Simple facts: 1. you hate russia and russian culture, ok, that's well documented and established, so like everyone's yours is a highly biased opinion. 2. You haven't been back to Russia in 25 years, so your views, knowledge is antiquated at best and based off of extremely biased and ignorant Western reports.
Did I miss anything?