This paper is devoted to what might be described as a new social movement in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus – a movement of patrimonial settlements. This movement is inspired on the texts by a Russian writer Vladimir Megre and pleading for a return to ‘mother earth’ for an unalienated life in small scale egalitarian communities. To some extend it reminds agrarian communities which were a part of communal socialism ideology proposed by Narodniki in XIXth century’s Russia. The key question of my article is whether we can see the phenomenon of patrimonial settlements as a revitalization of an idea of communal socialism.