Workers' Truth

Its main activists were arrested in September 1923—the group's activity being largely suppressed thereafter—and expelled from the Communist Party in December of the same year.

To combat this situation, they proposed the formation of secret propaganda circles in the workplace, in trade unions and other workers' organisations, as well as within the Communist Party and its affiliates.

[7] The Workers' Truth activists were mostly students[8] and from the "red" academies, that is, the higher education institutions created for the purpose to form the intellectuality of the new regime.

[15] On 8 September 1923 the Soviet secret police arrested several people accused of having links with Workers' Truth,[16] such as Fanya Shutskever, Pauline Lass-Kozlova, Efim Shul'man, Vladimir Khaikevich and also the philosopher and "old Bolshevik" Alexander Bogdanov.

[17] Bogdanov denied any organisational involvement with them, although they had claimed that they were inspired by his views, and demanded for a face-to-face meeting with Felix Dzerzhinsky, with whom he spoke twice before being released on 13 October.