Not like the Czar’s autocratic oligarchical regime and a history of serfdom and ignorance made life an opportunity filled garden of Eden for 90% of the citizenry.
There was actually an ongoing reform movement and things had changed considerably already, and there was a fairly large middle class, both commercial and prosperous peasant farmers (kulaks). Among the first people the anarchists and Communists went after, in fact, were reformers and reforming politicians, as well as the emerging urban middle class and the kulaks.
The Kadet party, which had been the socially liberal party and was also initially dedicated to reform, was increasingly pushed to the left in supporting the radicals and then when it went full left, it was eliminated altogether by the Communists because they didn’t need the reform “front” anymore.
Naturally, the two situations (Russia of 100 years ago and the modern US) are not the identical, if only because of modern communications, the fact that the situation of the poor is nowhere near as bad and the fact that many in our population are armed. But the principle is the same: the intelligentsia (minor academics and useless people such as celebrities, community organizers, etc.) adopts radicalism because it feels good and justifies their simultaneous envy, resentment and feelings of superiority. Then the liberal party starts supporting them, partly out of hatred for conservatives and partly out of increasing fear of the monster they themselves have nourished, and finally the monster bursts out and takes over.