Рабочая группа · 1923–early 1930s

Workers' Group

노동자 그룹

A clandestine opposition faction within the RCP(b) formed in 1923 by Gavriil Myasnikov. It advocated the election of workers' councils to manage nationalized enterprises, full freedom of the press 'from monarchists to anarchists,' and warned that the NEP risked becoming a 'New Exploitation of the Proletariat' without workers' democracy. After issuing its manifesto in February 1923 and attracting around 300 adherents in Moscow alone, the group was crushed by the OGPU in September 1923; remnants persisted underground and in prison camps into the early 1930s.

Related people

Gavriil Myasnikov Alexander Shlyapnikov

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (EN) full article on the Workers' Group: formation, program, repression, and survival until 1930s
  2. Wikipedia (EN) Myasnikov's leadership of the Workers' Group and his political trajectory
  3. Marxists Internet Archive full text of the February 1923 Manifesto of the Workers' Group
  4. revarchiv.narod.ru Russian-language biography of Myasnikov detailing the Workers' Group and its platform
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