Putin's a Tsarist and not a Communist. He's going for Imperial Russia and NOT the Soviet Union.
Check the Romanov trappings and regalia with which he surrounds himself:
And Communists don't embrace the Orthodox faith like he has...
So when he reconstitutes the majority of states that formed the former Soviet Union, he’ll call it a different name and run it as a dictator. What element of “communism” are you so proud he’d leave out?