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

• Superior document: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 253
• VerfasserIn: Wynn, Charters, 1953-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 253.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (467 pages)
• 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.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9789004514973; 9789004514966
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Charters Wynn.

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.