The Moderate Bolshevik

Mikhail Tomsky from The Factory to The Kremlin, 1880-1936

Charters Wynn (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

467 Seiten

2022
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-51496-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Charters Wynn, PhD (1987) Stanford University, is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. The American Historical Association awarded his book, Workers, Strikes, and Pogroms: The Donbass-Dnepr Bend in Late Imperial Russia, 1870-1905 (Princeton University Press, 1992), the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	18.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Historical Materialism Book Series ; 253
Zusatzinfo	3 Illustrations, color; 30 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	903 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-51496-1 / 9004514961
ISBN-13	978-90-04-51496-6 / 9789004514966
Zustand	Neuware