Meanwhile in the real world, Russia went from a backwards agrarian society where people travelled by horse and carriage to being the first in space in the span of 40 years. Russia showed incredible growth after the revolution that surpassed the rest of the world:

* https://wid.world/document/soviets-oligarchs-inequality-prop...

* https://wid.world/document/appendix-soviets-oligarchs-inequa...

USSR provided free education to all citizens resulting in literacy rising from 33% to 99.9%:

* http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/PubEdUSSR.htm

* http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/anglosov.htm

* http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000013/001300eo.pdf

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likbez

USSR doubled life expectancy in just 20 years. A newborn child in 1926-27 had a life expectancy of 44.4 years, up from 32.3 years thirty years before. In 1958-59 the life expectancy for newborns went up to 68.6 years. the Semashko system of the USSR increased lifespan by 50% in 20 years. By the 1960's, lifespans in the USSR were comparable to those in the USA:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Uni...

* https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB5054/index1.html

Quality of nutrition improved after the Soviet revolution, and the last time USSR had a famine was in 1940s. CIA data suggests they ate just as much as Americans after WW2 peroid while having better nutrition:

* https://www.scribd.com/document/430076844/CIA-RDP84B00274R00...

* https://artir.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/compar1.png?w=640

USSR moved from 58.5-hour work weeks to 41.6 hour work weeks (-0.36 h/yr) between 1913 and 1960:

* https://books.google.com/books?id=x8JYjwEACAAJ

* https://b-ok.cc/book/2669908/77497f

USSR averaged 22 days of paid leave in 1986 while USA averaged 7.6 in 1996:

* https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/1994/94B09_66_englp2.p...

* https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs.t05.htm