Moderate Bolshevik

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.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction1 Note on Transliteration1 The Making of a Moderate Working-Class Bolshevik Leader2 Balancing Act: Tomsky during War Communism and the Trade-Union Debate3 Detour East: From Disgraced Exile in Tashkent to Redemption inside the Kremlin4 Getting Together Then Falling Apart: Tomsky and British Trade Unionists5 Tomsky during NEP: Trade Unions and the Intra-Party Struggle6 NEP’s Last Stand: The Eighth Trade-Union Congress7 Tomsky Outcast: Tormenting a ‘Right Deviationist’ConclusionBibliographyIndex

"This book fills an important gap in the scholarly literature on the Stalin period. [...] 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, in: The Russian Review (2023).