Abstract

Love and Housing

One of the questions the first Comintern convention in seven years failed to take up is that of love and housing, which has reached alarming proportions in the Soviet Union during 1935. Love and housing is an issue which Communist International must face if it does not wish to lose the backing of every revolutionist in Greenwich Village, Montparnasse, Telegraph Hill and the Island of Bali. The author talks about the case of a Russian young man who fell in love with a woman not his wife. It was simple enough to divorce his spouse, but getting rid of her was another matter. She was entitled to one-half of the apartment they occupied, and she refused to yield her half to the new wife. It was a long and bitter battle which officially ended when the husband secretly exchanged his half of the apartment for the room of an obliging friend.