The moderate Bolshevik : : Mikhail Tomsky from the factory to the Kremlin, 1880-1936 / / 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...
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Superior document: | Historical materialism book series ; Volume 253 |
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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. |
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Table of 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.