When people describe old-style communists in Russia as conservatives, and that is what is normally done, it's quite correct, because the central thing about being "conservative" is that you are opposed to change, or at least highly suspicious of it.

My dearest wish would be to live in a society where I could be a conservative, because it was so well ordered that it needed to be protected against change. In many areas of life I am in fact very suspicious of change, not so much because I think things are perfect, but because I don't trust the motives of the people trying to change things.

For example we've got a field across the road from where I live where there's a Rugger Club, and the Club Committee had got in bed with some developers and wanted to build a lot of posh houses there, and relocate. That was a change I was hotly opposed to, and fortunately we seem to have beaten them off.

What I can't understand is people who call themselves "conservative", and who are all into tearing society up by the roots, and destroying well established social structures.