<Li> 15 May: Svirskii tells the strikers they can only negotiate over each factory in turn but they can hold elections wherever . The strikers elect delegates by mill right there in the surrounding boulevards . Later the delegates elect a chairman . </Li> <Li> 17 May: The meetings are moved to the bank of the Talka river, on suggestion by the police chief . </Li> <Li> 27 May: The delegates' meeting house is closed . </Li> <Li> 3 June: Cossacks break up a workers meeting, arresting over 20 . Workers start sabotaging telephone wires and burn down a mill . </Li>

The end of the civil war resulted in a significant rise in political power for which groups