 Social mobilization in Tiraspol and Bendery was mostly achieved through workplace networks called Work Collective Councils Work Collective Soviets ("sovety trudovykh kollektivov", STKs).The mobilization in Transnistria was a reaction to the national revivalist mobilization in Bessarabian Moldova.Russian-speaking workers in the eastern factories and Moldovans with a strong identification with the Soviet state used work collective councils to organize opposition to national revivalists in the Moldovan capital.