Development of social and cultural activity in the light of the results of the October revolution of 1917

The article examines various points of view on the results of the October Socialist Revolution in Russia in 1917, both for the country as a whole and for social and cultural activities. Author’s interpretation of the reasons for this phenomenon is given. In the opinion of the author, one of the important reasons for this situation is the absence in the society and at the state level of a generally recognized evaluation of the results of the October Revolution, as well as the presence of a subjective element in historical science, which contributes to the formation of different views. The article also shows the negative and positive results of the October Revolution in the social and cultural sphere at the initial stage of the Soviet state and in subsequent years. When many actions and decisions were taken that contributed not only to the development of the leisure sector, but also its transformation into a means of implanting communist ideology, the communist education of the broad masses of the people.