Anti-Party Group

The Anti-Party Group, fully referenced in the Soviet political parlance as "the anti-Party group of Malenkov, Kaganovich, Molotov and Shepilov, who joined them" (Russian: Антипартийная группа Маленкова, Кагановича, Молотова и примкнувшего к ним Шепилова, romanized: Antipartiynaya gruppa Malenkova, Kaganovicha, Molotova i primknuvshego k nim Shepilova) was a Stalinist group within the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that unsuccessfully attempted to depose Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Party in June 1957. The group, given that epithet by Khrushchev, was led by former Premiers Georgy Malenkov and Vyacheslav Molotov and former First Deputy Premier Lazar Kaganovich. The group rejected both Khrushchev's liberalization of Soviet society and his denunciation of Joseph Stalin, and promoted the full restoration and preservation of Stalinism.

Anti-Party Group
Антипартийная группа
LeaderGeorgy Malenkov
Vyacheslav Molotov
Lazar Kaganovich
FounderVyacheslav Molotov
Lazar Kaganovich
Georgy Malenkov
FoundedFebruary 1956 (1956-02)
DissolvedJune 1957 (1957-06)
Ideology
Political positionFar-left
National affiliationCPSU
Seats in the Politburo7
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