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of the group, while Olga Barash was in charge of organizational work. Left School did not have a formal leadership, but objectively, its three founders took the lead. As the group grew, its members were planning to hold a congress or a conference in the second half of 1976. It had been expected that
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in January 1975, the unaffected former members of the Left School led by N. Magnat and O. Barash, managed to preserve NCPSU from complete breakdown through increased secrecy. They successfully kept the organization alive deep underground up until 1977, when arrested NCPSU leaders were released to
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that this would happen by the end of the 20th century. For the revolution to be successful it would be crucial that a revolutionary party would be formed in the country, a party which could take the lead in the revolution. Left School saw itself as an "embryo" of such a party.
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principles and political goals were extremely close to those of the Left School. After long negotiations both groups had come to a merger agreement, which was formally executed in September 1974. The merged organization was called the
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which would bring the political order in line with the economic order, thus eliminating "the perversion". Such revolution was viewed by the members of the Left School as a "socialist democratic revolution" by analogy with
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Left School never questioned the socialist nature of the USSR's economy, consequently, the social order of the Soviet Union was defined as "perverse socialism". To rectify the situation it would be enough to perform a
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In spite of the formal integration with PNC, viable joint activities were not established in the beginning. As a consequence, when Moscow group of PNC (including its leaders) was arrested by the
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freedom and began to revive the party. Thus, although formally ceased to exist in September 1974, in reality the Left School acted as an independent clandestine group right up to January 1977.
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in the late 1920s and early 1930s was thought to be the reason for this regime to be established. The group of Stalin's supporters expressed the interests of
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At the same time Natalia Magnat had surrendered the role of the primary ideological theorist to a former member of PNC
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forces and its regime was seen by the Left School as socially futile, condemning the country to cultural and social
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in December 1972 - January 1973. Left School is seen by modern researchers as one of the first organizations of the
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In September 1973 Left School established contact with another underground radical left organization called The
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which was deemed to be the grassroots basis of the revolution, being a class, that suffered most from the
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Not A Serious Revolution. Study of the Theory and History of Quasi-Revolutionary Movements
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The organization's members planned to publish an underground magazine to be called
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Theoretic foundations of the Left School combined elements of classic
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the congress would elect the group's leaders, discuss and adopt the
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and, in particular, students, were thought fit to become the
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Index

Leader
Natalia Magnat
Olga Barash
Inna Okup
Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Moscow
Russian SFSR
USSR
Ideology
Marxism-Leninism
Trotskyism
Atheist existentialism
New Left
Political position
Far-left
Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Politics of the Soviet Union
Political parties
Elections
Russian
clandestine
radical left
Moscow
New Left
Soviet Union
Natalia Magnat
Olga Barash
Inna Okup
Moscow State Pedagogical University
theorist

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