The collective experiences that the Belgrade respondents still find significant — the mass base of support that the Partisans were able to build during the war, the numerous volunteer brigades of the postwar reconstruction, and the solidarity that the break with the Cominform reinforced — created a revolutionary dynamic that self-management was intended both to utilize and to perpetuate. By institutionalizing the almost spontaneous social activism of the war and the reconstruction, the leadership probably hoped to make their revolution permanent in at least three senses. First, in order to legitimate the new political system, they created self-management organs in the image of political organizations which enjoyed widespread support from their population. These organizational models were the National Liberation committees of local government that the Partisans had instituted during the war and the workers' councils (like Lenin's Soviets and Gramsci's factory councils) which had attracted support from Russian workers in 1905 and 1917.