Left School

The Left School (Russian: Левая школа) – a radical left organization, founded in Moscow in December 1972 - January 1973. Left School is seen by modern researchers as one of the first organizations of the New Left in the Soviet Union.

The group was founded by Natalia Magnat, Olga Barash and Inna Okup, and consisted almost completely of the students of Moscow State Pedagogical University.

Natalia Magnat was a recognized theorist 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 the congress would elect the group's leaders, discuss and adopt the charter and the program, as well as, possibly, choose a new name (the name "Left School" was seen as temporary and chosen, mainly, for reasons of secrecy).

The organization's members planned to publish an underground magazine to be called Left School, but this project had not been implemented. In the summer of 1973 members of the Left School made an attempt to create subsidiary groups in Ukraine, but it was unsuccessful.

In September 1973 Left School established contact with another underground radical left organization called The Party of New Communists (PNC) (Russian: Партия новых коммунистов (ПНК)), whose ideological 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 Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union (NCPSU; Russian: Неокоммунистическая партия Советского Союза, НКПСС). Natalia Magnat and Olga Barash joined the group of NCPSU's informal leaders.

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