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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wynn, Charters, 1953- author.

Series:

Historical materialism book series ; Volume 253.

Historical materialism book series ; Volume 253

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Statesmen--Soviet Union--Biography.

Statesmen.

Revolutionaries--Soviet Union--Biography.

Revolutionaries.

Labor unions and communism--Soviet Union.

Labor unions and communism.

Soviet Union--Politics and government--1917-1936.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--Economic policy--1917-1928.

Tomskiĭ, M. P. (Mikhail Pavlovich), 1880-1936.

Tomskiĭ, M. P.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (467 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

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.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1 Note on Transliteration

1 The Making of a Moderate Working-Class Bolshevik Leader

2 Balancing Act: Tomsky during War Communism and the Trade-Union Debate

3 Detour East: From Disgraced Exile in Tashkent to Redemption inside the Kremlin

4 Getting Together Then Falling Apart: Tomsky and British Trade Unionists

5 Tomsky during NEP : Trade Unions and the Intra-Party Struggle

6 NEP ’s Last Stand: The Eighth Trade-Union Congress

7 Tomsky Outcast: Tormenting a ‘Right Deviationist’

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

This first English-language biography of Mikhail Tomsky illuminates how the sole worker in the top echelon of the Bolshevik Party, and the leader of the huge trade-union bureaucracy, helped shape Soviet domestic and foreign policy along generally moderate lines throughout the 1920s.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Wynn, Charters The Moderate Bolshevik

ISBN:

9789004514973

OCLC:

1312163506

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004514973 DOI