Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups

The Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups (MFAG) was a network of anarchist groups established in Moscow, Russia in 1917.

They occupied the Merchants' House shortly after the February Revolution.

[1] They published Anarkhiia, weekly after its launch in September 1917 and then as a daily from March 1918.

Following the October Revolution of November 1917, they were involved in the development of the Black Guards into a significant military force in Moscow.

On 3 March 1918 the Bolsheviks signed the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, which precipitated a political crisis with their erstwhile allies amongst the Anarchists and Left Socialist Revolutionaries.