After the Bolshevik seizure of power, they tried to create the new "way of life (быт)". This meant a new workers' culture free from the traditional way of life. They focused on the private sectors like free time, but gradually moved to the collective factors such as producers' cooperatives and communes. They proceeded anti-religious campaign and temperance movement. The "revolutionary" holidays and rituals substituted traditional and religious ones.
Soviet regime tried to encourage collective mind through reading and lecture attending, play and movie, while the people will be freed from drinking and unproductive card-play. They wanted to change the private and consumption-oriented culture to a public and productive one. For this purpose, the soviet regime tried to offer diverse culture programs. However, the everyday life of workers in 1920s consisted mainly of private way of life such as walk, visit and invitation. Alcohol and playing card did not give way to a new culture. Male workers spent more time on reading books and self-education. However, the female workers had still problems in reading books, they read only newspapers. Many of these had even problem in reading a newspaper. They spent most of their free time on trivial lifestyle such as walking and chatting. But it did not mean, that they were only "lag behind". They exposed themselves to the double burden of work and housework in 1920s. Therefore, the tired female workers preferred just to take a rest, rather than actively embrace the “new way of life”, which was offered by the Soviet regime.