According to recent press reports the Kuzbas experiment is still very much alive. "Kuzbas" is a Utopian colony located at Kamerovo, Siberia, where American radical workers migrated to carry out their syndicalist and communist theories " in perfect freedom." It was originally under the leadership of "Big Bill" Haywood, the I. W. W. chief who jumped his bail while under a 20-year jail sentence, but he was ejected by the colonists for incompetence. Following this, disillusioned members of the colony returned to America bringing back gloomy tales of the failure of Kuzbas...
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