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Mikhail Tomsky | |
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Михаил Томский | |
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| Chairman of the Presidium of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions | |
| In office September 1922 – May 1929 | |
| Preceded by | Post established |
| Succeeded by | Alexander Dogadov |
| Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets | |
| In office 29 December 1921 – 28 December 1922 | |
| Preceded by | Pyotr Zalutsky |
| Succeeded by | Timofei Sapronov |
| General Secretary of the International Trade Union Council | |
| In office 1920 – 3 July 1921 | |
| President | Solomon Lozovsky |
| Preceded by | Post established |
| Succeeded by | Post abolished |
| Full member of the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th Politburo | |
| In office 3 April 1922 – 13 July 1930 | |
| Full member of the 10th, 11th, 12th Orgburo | |
| In office 16 March 1921 – 2 June 1924 | |
| Candidate member of the 9th, 13th Orgburo | |
| In office 2 June 1924 – 1 January 1926 | |
| In office 5 April 1920 – 16 March 1921 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mikhail Pavlovich Yefremov 31 October 1880 Kolpino, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 22 August 1936 (aged 55) Bolshevo, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1904–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1936) |
| Occupation | Trade unionist |
Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky (Russian: Михаи́л Па́влович То́мский, born Mikhail Pavlovich Yefremov – sometimes transliterated as Efremov; Михаи́л Па́влович Ефре́мов; 31 October 1880 – 22 August 1936) was a factory worker, trade unionist and Bolshevik leader and Soviet politician. He was the Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions in the 1920s.[1]
In his youth, Tomsky worked at the Smirnov Engineering factory in St. Petersburg, but was eventually dismissed from that job for attempting to organise a trade union.[2]
His labour activities radicalized him politically and led him to become a socialist and join the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1904 and eventually join the Bolshevik faction of the party.[2]
During the First Moscow Trial, at the onset of the Great Purge, Tomsky was implicated. He would later commit suicide to avoid arrest by the NKVD in August 1936.
- ^ Wynn, Charters. From the Factory to the Kremlin: Mikhail Tomsky and the Russian Worker, University of Texas at Austin, 22 May 1996. University Center for International Research, University of Pittsburg, 10 September 2002, www.ucis.pitt.edu/nceeer/1996-809-09-Wynn.pdf. Accessed 29 May 2021. "Archive" (PDF). Archived from the original on 29 April 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
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