Group work of the youth organization "Union of Struggle for the Cause of the Revolution"

The Union of Struggle for the Cause of the Revolution is a youth radical leftist anti-Stalinist underground organization.

It was created in Moscow by students B. V. Slutsky, E. Z. Gurevich and V. L. Furman in 1950. A program and manifesto of the organization was drawn up. They talked about the degeneration of socialism into state capitalism, that Stalin's rule was Bonapartism, and that collective farms should be replaced by state farms everywhere so that the peasants would receive wages like workers. Members of the organization made a hectograph to reproduce documents.

In January-February 1951, members of the organization were arrested by the MGB. On February 13, 1952, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR issued a verdict in this case. The verdict stated that a group of Jewish nationalists created a treacherous, terrorist organization, whose members set themselves the goal of overthrowing the existing system in the USSR through an armed uprising and committing terrorist acts against the leaders of the Soviet government and the CPSU.

B. Slutsky, E. Gurevich and V. Furman were sentenced to death and executed, ten members of the organization were sentenced to 25 years in prison, and three more to 10 years in prison. The only one who did not plead guilty at the trial was M. Ulanovskaya.

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