The Moderate Bolshevik : Mikhail Tomsky from the Factory to the Kremlin, 1880-1936 (Historical Materialism Book Series)

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.