page_title: Mikhail Tomsky
hierarchical_section_title: Mikhail Tomsky
caption_attribution_description: Mikhail Tomsky , Communist , commited suicide in September 1936 during en:The Great Purge. Well known photo of Tomsky as a Chairmain of Soviet trade-unions
context_page_description: Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky was a factory worker, trade unionist and Bolshevik leader. He was the Soviet leader of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions.
  Tomsky attempted to form a trade union at his factory in St. Petersburg resulting in his dismissal.
  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.
context_section_description: 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. He was the Soviet leader of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions.
  Tomsky attempted to form a trade union at his factory in St. Petersburg resulting in his dismissal.
  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.
caption: Tomsky as head of the trade union movement, 1920s
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