Harry Pollitt
British communist (1890-1960) · United Kingdom · On the map · Politicians · Died at 69
Harry Pollitt was a British communist who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) from July 1929 to September 1939 and again from 1941 until his death in 1960. Pollitt spent most of his life advocating communism.
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A USSR stamp of 1970 commemorating Harry Pollitt and his role in preventing the SS Jolly George from carrying arms to Poland
Pollitt c. 1928
Rose Cohen, a CPGB member and friend of Pollitt, executed during the Great Purge
Pollitt (right) meets David Guest in Spain
Harry Pollitt giving a public speech to workers in Whitehall, London, 1941
Soviet troops in Budapest, November 1956
Harry Pollitt attending the 4th party conference of the East German communist party, 1954About this person
Ideologically a Marxist-Leninist, Pollitt was an adherent particularly of Joseph Stalin even after Stalin's death and rise of Nikita Khrushchev. Pollitt's acts included opposition to the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and Polish-Soviet War, support for the Spanish Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, both support for and opposition to the war against Nazi Germany, defence of the communist coup in Czechoslovakia, and support for the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary.
