Charters Wynn

The Moderate Bolshevik

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 821g
• ISBN-13: 9789004514966
• ISBN-10: 9004514961
• Artikelnr.: 63254577

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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