Rank the Russian Governments in the past 300 years

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

All of them were awful places to live. Most of the forms of Russian statehood were highly oppressive and strongly imperialist, ordinary people were living like slaves. Soviet Union at least modernised Russia but on the other hand caused a lot of misery and created a lot of problems common for post-Soviet zone. Still from the Russian perspective probably Soviet Union, even with its atrocities, was the best Russian(-dominated) form of statehood in the past 300 years.