it depends on what you mean by traditional family values. i think it makes more sense to think about what went on as a revolt against feudalism and its social mores in which the church played a central part. it was like a repeat of what happened in france in 1789 by people who studied the history of the french revolution and were determined to prevent a counter-revolution from stopping them, which made the bolsheviks particularly repressive. there was a pullback on radical experimentation in the arts in the ussr in the 1930s, and the propaganda began to emphasize the role of women as mothers, but they retained a commitment to women participating in the labor force, going to school, getting an education, and stuff like that. this poster says: "working woman in the struggle for socialism, struggle against religion."   lenin seemed to personally disapprove of avant-garde tendencies in art but also didn't seem to care. i'd have to track it down, but there's an account of him visiting proletkult, which is a radical avant-garde artistic institution that arose in 1917, and he was like "well i don't know what this has to do with the revolution but... i'm old." i think he had a complex way of looking at things. the way he criticized other bolsheviks was to take a particular thing like "comrade x did this and it's wrong and here's why" but then make a general point that comrade x was also a determined revolutionary and was good. or if you made a mistake and did something objectively harmful, he would criticize you to change your perspective. but for stalin, it was like that collapsed, and one's objective actions and subjective thoughts were treated in a mechanical way like literally. so if you made a mistake, that was your conscious intention to commit sabotage, which is treason.   communists had a very flat conception of human nature. you basically find nothing in 100+ years of literature about how to have sex or raise kids as a communist.
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