If Russia was going to remain a non-democratic one-party state; then: what was the point of all the chaos and tragedy in the 1990s?
Elections decide nothing in any country. The country was ruled by traitors who wanted to destroy Russia in order to establish the world government. But, fortunately, it did not happen.
If the purpose was to introduce market economy because the people wanted that -- then it would have been simpler to do what China did.
No one asked people what they wanted.