TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wynn,Charters
TI  - The moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from the factory to the Kremlin, 1880-1936 
T2  - Historical materialism book series,
SN  - 900451497X
AV  - DK268.T64 W96 2022
U1  - 947.084092B 23/eng/20220127
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Tomski�i, M. P.
KW  - Statesmen
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Biography
KW  - Revolutionaries
KW  - Labor unions and communism
KW  - Agriculture and state
KW  - History
KW  - Labor movement
KW  - Working class
KW  - Hommes d'�Etat
KW  - URSS
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Syndicats et communisme
KW  - Politique agricole
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Mouvement ouvrier
KW  - Travailleurs
KW  - fast
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1917-1936
KW  - 1917-1928
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - Politique �economique
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Note on transliteration -- The making of a moderate working-class Bolshevik leader -- Balancing act: Tomsky during War Communism and the trade-union debate -- Detour East: from disgraced exile in Tashkent to redemption inside the Kremlin -- Getting together then falling apart: Tomsky and British trade unionists -- Tomsky during NEP: trade unions and the intra-party struggle -- NEP's last stand: the eighth trade-union congress -- Tomsky outcast: tormenting a 'Right Deviationist' -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - "This first English-language biography of Mikhail Tomsky reveals his central role in all the key developments in early Soviet history, including the stormy debates over the role of unions in the self-proclaimed workers' state. Charters Wynn's compelling account illuminates how the charismatic Tomsky rose from an impoverished working-class background and years of tsarist prison and Siberian exile to become both a Politburo member and the head of the trade unions, where he helped shape Soviet domestic and foreign policy along generally moderate lines throughout the 1920s. His failed attempt to block Stalin's catastrophic adoption of forced collectivization would tragically make Tomsky a prime target in the Great Purges"--
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