In practice, each place has as much autonomy as the local strongman is able to carve out for himself. Many do not obey Moscow. Khrushchev was an ethnic Ukrainian. Khrushchev was peacefully ousted from power. All Russian political institutions are weak.
Russian conservatives favor private enterprise.
Totalitarian and authoritarian systems are basically the same. Gorbachev implemented a plan for economic restructuring. Gorbachev implemented media openness. Yeltsin was Russia's first president. A red-brown coalition is impossible, for its two strands are ideologically totally opposed to each other.