This is not really true. Putin wants to recreate not the USSR but to the contrary, to make Russia the bastion of Orthodox Christian civilization - in other words, to succeed with Christianity where Communism failed. And he sees a decadent, dissolute, morally confused and weak West. Not a role model for the Slavs.
He wants to renew Russia not in the spirit of Marx but in the spirit of Byzantium and he sees Russia as the heir to the Romans who once ruled from Constantinople.
Neocon yahoos have never heard of Byzantium. Or Christianity.