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Kolpino, Saint Petersburg Governorate, to a poor working class family of Russian ethnicity. His father was a metal worker and his mother worked as a seamstress. As such Tomsky was to become one of the relatively few "hereditary proletarians" (to use the term favored by Soviet historians) of the period. His father was an abusive alcoholic and Tomsky's mother left him shortly before Mikhail's birth, choosing

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