The Moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from The Factory to The Kremlin, 1880-1936

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Charters Wynn

The Moderate Bolshevik

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

Charters Wynn

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Haymarket Books
08 August 2023

Industrial arbitration & negotiation

Series: Historical Materialism

Mikhail Tomsky (1880-1936) was one of the most important and influential leaders of the early Soviet Union.

This first English-language biography of 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.

By: Charters Wynn
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781642599169
ISBN 10: 1642599166
Series: Historical Materialism
Pages: 467
Publication Date: 08 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Charters Wynn 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 the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize.

Reviews for The Moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from The Factory to The Kremlin, 1880-1936

"""This is an excellent, deeply researched, and well-written book that will be required reading for those interested in Soviet history and will be useful for others in labor history.""—J. Arch Getty, The Russian Review ""Charters Wynn’s engaging and scrupulously researched biography of Soviet trade union leader Mikhail Tomsky breaks new ground in the study of early Soviet political history. Depending on British and Russian archives and a substantive base of secondary sources, Wynn enriches and corrects older interpretations of Soviet trade union history and Communist Party politics in the 1920s."" —Barbara C. Allen, author of Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885-1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik."