Soviet Eros Why was Russia unprepared for the sexual revolution. A hundred years ago, Russia was suddenly ahead of the rest in matters of family law. The Bolsheviks, having barely come to power, has adopted many progressive laws. Civil marriage, easy divorce, women are granted equal rights with men in the family sphere, the equalization of the rights of illegitimate children, legalization of abortion and contraception, the decriminalization of homosexuality and prostitution. Soviet Russia became the first country in the world, where he accomplished the sexual revolution. War and sex The first world war and the resulting collapse of the economy was one of the main reasons for not only the February and October revolutions of 1917, but the greatest changes in intimate life of inhabitants of Russia. The civil war continued this process. War — millions of men, away from home. Professor I. H. Gelman, who in 1922, a
