Description
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.
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About the Author
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
"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. "Mikhail Tomsky is far from a household name among left-wing activists except for those who have studied the history of the Russian Revolution in some depth. In [this] very thorough account of the life of Tomsky, the American historian Charters Wynn goes an appreciable distance in reversing that unfortunate situation." -Sam Farber, New Politics
Book Information
ISBN 9781642599169
Author Charters Wynn
Format Paperback
Page Count 467
Imprint Haymarket Books
Publisher Haymarket Books
*Email campaign to Haymarket's growing number of mailing list subscribers *Promotion to the subscribers and supporters of the journal from which the book series derives *Academic marketing campaign to scholars in relevant fields, aiming to specifically target professors likely to assign the book to students *Reviews in relevant academic and left journals and periodicals *Virtual launch events bringing together authors and contributors from across the globe to the 35k subscribers to Haymarket's YouTube channel *Display and promotion at relevant academic and left conferences and events
About the Author
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
"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. "Mikhail Tomsky is far from a household name among left-wing activists except for those who have studied the history of the Russian Revolution in some depth. In [this] very thorough account of the life of Tomsky, the American historian Charters Wynn goes an appreciable distance in reversing that unfortunate situation." -Sam Farber, New Politics
Book Information
ISBN 9781642599169
Author Charters Wynn
Format Paperback
Page Count 467
Imprint Haymarket Books
Publisher Haymarket Books
