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

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

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AnthropologyGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 9004514961
ISBN13: 9789004514966
Publisher: Brill
Published: Mar 24 2022
Pages: 457
Weight: 1.81
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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