It resulted in such strong social cooperation that the majority of the population (the workers) succeeded in a revolution in 1917 and then for decades drastically improved their material conditions.
There are of course other factors than climate.
There are of course other factors than climate.
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.
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.
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.