WI, during the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, the army had sided with Rutskoi and Khasbulatov (as some of its members were tempted to do) in forcing Yeltsin to resign the presidency?
Capitalism and democracy stopped in Russia. Many democratic politicians go to prison or worse. Diplomats will have all hands full to do to prevent Soviet Russia invading the separatist republics. Let's hope nobody fires a nuke (Kazakhstan and Ukraine have some too, after all...)
What type of Communist was Rutskoi? Was he one of the Glasnost idealists, or was he a hardliner dedicated to keeping the status quo, etc?
If he's a Glasnost idealist, at least an invasion of the new republics might be delayed for a few years.
Either way, I don't think the Russian economy will match up to the present one's. Yeltsin wasn't great, but he did start the economic reforms for the beginning of a capitalist, free-market economy.
I'm reading a book on the subject right now, so I'll have to hold further comment until later.
However, I will suggest that if Rutskoi is able to placate the army, things may go signifigantly better in a hypothetical future Chechen campaign. According to former CIA agent Robert Baer in See No Evil, the officer corps supported Yeltsin and actually manned the tanks, APCs, and artillery that kept him in power, but rather than being rewarded, many in Moscow got demoted and transferred to distant posts in hellish places like Taijikstan. This probably contributed to the planning problems Yeltsin encountered in 1994.