I went to a meeting of a group of literary scholars not long after the dissolution of the USSR. One of my marxist-inclined colleagues explained, when asked how come the great Soviet experiment had collapsed, contrary to all predictions, by saying that, according to Marx, you can't have true Communism until you first go through capitalism. But Russia, foolishly eager, went straight from Czarist feudalism to Communism instead of taking things slowly in the proper historical order that Marx had predicted.
So, she concluded, Russia needed to have a century or so of capitalist development. Then they could try Communism all over again, and this time it would succeed. She evidently was looking forward to the day.
That's spooky.