diff --git a/java/java-impl/src/com/intellij/refactoring/inline/InlineMethodProcessor.java b/java/java-impl/src/com/intellij/refactoring/inline/InlineMethodProcessor.java
index ae1622b414e1..f0b6b8da1e26 100644
--- a/java/java-impl/src/com/intellij/refactoring/inline/InlineMethodProcessor.java
+++ b/java/java-impl/src/com/intellij/refactoring/inline/InlineMethodProcessor.java
@@ -843,7 +843,12 @@ public class InlineMethodProcessor extends BaseRefactoringProcessor {
           PsiClass parentClass = (PsiClass)parent;
           final PsiClass containingClass = myMethod.getContainingClass();
           if (containingClass != null && parentClass.isInheritor(containingClass, true)) {
-            qualifier = myFactory.createExpressionFromText(parentClass.getName() + ".this", null);
+            String name = parentClass.getName();
+            // We cannot have qualified this reference to an anonymous class, so we leave it unqualified
+            // this might produce incorrect code in extremely rare cases 
+            // when we inline a superclass method in an anonymous class, 
+            // and the method body contains a nested class that refers to the outer one
+            qualifier = myFactory.createExpressionFromText(name == null ? "this" : name + ".this", null);
           }
           else if (containingClass != null && parentClass.equals(containingClass)) {
             qualifier = myFactory.createExpressionFromText("this", null);
diff --git a/java/java-tests/testData/refactoring/inlineMethod/InlineAnonymousCall.java b/java/java-tests/testData/refactoring/inlineMethod/InlineAnonymousCall.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..caec3b18c2fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/java/java-tests/testData/refactoring/inlineMethod/InlineAnonymousCall.java
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+public class Test {
+  static class X {
+    void foo() {
+      System.out.println(this);
+    }
+  }
+
+  void test() {
+    new X () {
+      void bar() {
+        <caret>foo();
+      }
+    };
+  }
+}
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diff --git a/java/java-tests/testData/refactoring/inlineMethod/InlineAnonymousCall.java.after b/java/java-tests/testData/refactoring/inlineMethod/InlineAnonymousCall.java.after
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9f5d79d53bf5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/java/java-tests/testData/refactoring/inlineMethod/InlineAnonymousCall.java.after
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+public class Test {
+  static class X {
+  }
+
+  void test() {
+    new X () {
+      void bar() {
+          System.out.println(this);
+      }
+    };
+  }
+}
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