Vivvo CMS 4.1 PRI: Public Radio International http://www.pri.org/ ©2010 Spoonlabs d.o.o. PRI: Public Radio International http://www.pri.org/files.php?file=rss_682409203.gif http://www.pri.org/ Some Russians long for the communal housing of the kommunalka http://www.pri.org/stories/business/global-development/some-russians-long-for-the-communal-housing-of-the-kommunalka-7436.html Global Development Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:00:00 -0600 After the Bolshevik Revolution, communist leaders in Russia solved the urban housing crisis by seizing the luxury apartments of the rich and turning them into communal housing projects, the kommunalka. Each family got a room and then all the families, three, four, five of them, shared the kitchen and bathrooms. Some older Russians miss those times. PRI: Public Radio International