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The moderate Bolshevik : Mikhail Tomsky from the factory to the Kremlin, 1880-1936 / by Charters Wynn.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Historical materialism book series ; v. 253.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 900451497X
  • 9789004514973
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Moderate BolshevikDDC classification:
  • 947.084092 B 23/eng/20220127
LOC classification:
  • DK268.T64 W96 2022
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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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.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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