After Stalin Box
A group of people from the History Department of Moscow State
University began to gather in 1957 and discuss different ideas, among
them the ideas of workers' councils and of Bakunin. They formed a
clandestine group in Oct. '58 and wrote a program. The group's
activities ended in Jan. 1959 when one of its founders, Anatoly
Mikhailovich Ivanov, was arrested in the History Library for writing
anti-Soviet literature and sent to a psychiatric hospital. He was
released in 1960 and people began to gather again. (Some people were
poets and some political people so there were two tendencies in their
loose group.) Then in 1961, before the Party Congress, three of them,
Osipov, Ivanov and Kuznetsov, were arrested for plotting to kill
Kruschev. Apparently they had seriously entertained this idea as they
believed he would start a large-scale war. None of the three resumed
anarchist activities afterwards.