Strike committee (zabastovochny komitet)
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Self-organized bodies directly elected by workers in each city and coal basin during the July 1989 Soviet miners' strikes. First formed in Mezhdurechensk, they spread across the Kuzbass, Donbas, Vorkuta, and Karaganda basins, maintaining public order, enforcing prohibition, and leading negotiations with government commissions during the walkouts. After the strikes they reorganized into workers' committees (rabkomy) to monitor implementation of agreements, later evolving into the Union of Kuzbass Workers and the Independent Union of Miners.
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- Wikipedia (RU) formation of strike committees (забастовочные комитеты) in each city, order maintained by strikers, election of new worker leaders, spread from Mezhdurechensk across Kuzbass, Donbas, Vorkuta, Karaganda
- Wikipedia (EN) July 1989 strikes as largest in Soviet history, strike committees formed in Mezhdurechensk and across basins, comparison to Polish Solidarity, committees as organisational innovation
- Marxists Internet Archive Susan Weissman, September/October 1989: strike committees formed in each area, took over mine management at Karaganda, dual power in Kemerovo and Karaganda, calls for independent trade unions
- ed-glezin.livejournal.com стачкомы as self-management organs, worker druzhiny for order, prohibition enforcement, crime dropped 3–4 times, later reorganized as workers' committees, Regional Union of Strike Committees of the Donbas formed August 1989
- soviethistory.msu.edu Lewis Siegelbaum: city and regional strike/workers' committees as institutions, Union of Kuzbass Workers, Independent Union of Miners, evolution from 1989 to 1991 strike