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

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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. ‎Contents ‎Acknowledgements ‎Illustrations ‎Introduction ‎Chapter 1. The Making of a Moderate Working-Class Bolshevik Leader ‎Chapter 2. Balancing Act: Tomsky during War Communism and the Trade-Union Debate ‎Chapter 3. Detour East: From Disgraced Exile in Tashkent to Redemption inside the Kremlin ‎Chapter 4. Getting Together Then Falling Apart: Tomsky and British Trade Unionists ‎Chapter 5. Tomsky during NEP: Trade Unions and the Intra-Party Struggle ‎Chapter 6. NEP’s Last Stand: The Eighth Trade-Union Congress ‎Chapter 7. Tomsky Outcast: Tormenting a ‘Right Deviationist’ ‎Conclusion ‎Bibliography ‎Index