After all, Russia also has some awful climates, and it doesn't seem to have resulted in strong social cooperation.
Norway was already the richest European country back in 1938, decades before oil was even discovered in the North Sea.
There are of course other factors than climate.
Where you literally had guards not caring if the revolutionaries took over the position or building?
And the material conditions did not drastically improve, the USSR struggled with living conditions until it's demise.
If anything the blatant corruption made social cooperation impossible.
The October Revolution also wasn’t Russia’s first revolution that year. The tsar had already been ousted in the February Revolution, and considering that Russia had already begun to industrialize significantly in the final years of tsarist rule, it is certainly likely that Russia would have enjoyed rising prosperity even if Lenin had not returned from exile and made his coup.
And then Russia today has very low social trust, which is less surprising when you look at them being a totalitarian dictatorship for so long.
I'm a libertarian so I'm already suspicious of such things, makes it easy to spot.