How did the Bolshevik revolution change life for Russians?

The immediate change was the elimination of the democratic Provisional Government in favor of rule by Lenin and his Bolsheviks through the workers' councils called Soviets in various larger cites. Under Bolshevik rule Russia got out of World War II. A socialist (not Communist) system was imposed on the country under which all but the smallest business were taken over by the government, land was redistributed to peasant farmers and food distribution was temporarily improved. Soon though, many people became disenchanted with the Bolsheviks and the Russian Civil War broke out in 1918 and lasted until 1920. Russia never became the communist workers' paradise that the Russian people hoped it would be. Instead the new government nearly ruined the economy and had to resort to terroristic methods to keep the Russian people from rebelling again.