Sadecky tells us that the PPP were in fact formed out of an organisation called Progressive Politics (PP). PP were said to have come into existence about 1957, this was an important time in Soviet politics.

Kruschev had not long given his famous speech to the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Union's Communist Party in which he denounced Stalin. With the resulting thaw, an exodus of people with tales to tell came flooding out of the forced labour camps, and the authorities found it almost impossible to prevent them from communicating.

It was Sadecky's claim that PP were part of this new notion of de-Stalinsation. They still held the ideals of the revolution close to their hearts, but despised the oppression and totalitarianism of the Stalin years. They began attending Komsomol meetings (the Communist Youth League), and publishing anti-Stalinist leaflets and manifestos.

By 1960 PP began to become more and more disillusioned, they realised they could never change the status quo and decided to withdraw into isolation. After a period of dabbling with Buddhism and other philosophies of passive resistance, the PP began to investigate free love. They held wild parties that usually involved large quantities of alcohol and often developed into orgies.

One group member, Lydia Borisovna Gal, was particularly involved at this time and it was with her influence that they began to write and draw pornography. PP still wanted to make statements about their political views and as time wore on, the forbidden fruit of free love became normalised and so PP became PPP and they combined their porn with their politics within the pages of their samizdat magazine Mtsyry.

With time the PPP began to develop an unwritten but rigid constitution, the groups never met collectively but they each had a member known as the Spetsofitser (Special Officer) who dealt with group admin and security. Communication was only possible through the Samizdat magazines they published and the procedure appeared to be the same for all involved.

Once the group had finished preparing the contents of a particular issue, they would leave the completed pages behind in their meeting place. When the members returned for their next meeting the pages would already have gone and several weeks later the printed magazine would appear in their place. Sadecky presumed the Spetsofitser dealt with the printing.

They would also receive copies of magazines from other cells in a similar fashion.

Each cell also had special members in every region called Filosofi (Philosophers), these members would gather as much information as possible from as many sources as they could find. They would read all the papers with an eye for inconsistencies, they would listen to western radio, and consume countless intellectual and academic works on Communism to enable them to produce critiques of the Soviet system.

The ideas for the Octobriana strips came from the Filosofi, they would then discuss their ideas with the rest of the group, usually know as he Khudozhniki (artists). Once the plot had been established, the artists would go away and produce their own individual sequence of frames. The next time they met they would collectively choose the illustrations they felt told the story most effectively. From here the finished strip would be developed with each member working on their own individual specialties such as figures, architecture and technology. The finished strips were then inked by one person in order to give them the feel of the work of a single creator working alone.