How was people's culture and lifestyle under Lenin's rule?

Answer 1

Peopple's lifestyles were very poor and the culture was oppresive because it was a communist society

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The fledgling Soviet state was undergoing a period of social & economic upheaval, so how you fared under the new regime depended in large part on where you'd been under the old. But times were difficult for everyone after years of war, revolution, civil war and foreign intervention. For those formerly better-off it was a time of loss and painful adjustment. For those who'd had little, the new regime held out the hope of improvement, though many (especially in the countryside) clung to the old values of village, church and ethnic identity in preference to the Bolsheviks' attacks on religion and (mostly urban) efforts at modernisation in the arts, literature etc. The harshness of communist rule during the period of civil war (1918-20) gave way to a less restrictive economic policy from 1921, but drought and famine in the south of the country claimed up to 5 million lives in the following year. Lenin died just as the newly-created USSR was entering eight years of recovery (1923-30) that would take living standards above pre-war levels before the strains of forced economic transformation and renewed emphasis on class war took their toll.