Harry Pollitt was a British communist who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain from July 1929 to September 1939 and again from 1941 until his death in 1960. Pollitt
A USSR stamp of 1970 commemorating Harry Pollitt and his role in preventing the SS Jolly George from carrying arms to Poland
Rose Cohen, a CPGB member and friend of Pollitt, executed during the Great Purge
Harry Pollitt giving a public speech to workers in Whitehall, London, 1941
The Communist International, also known as the Third International, was a Marxist political international that advocated world communism and existed from 1919 to 1943. Emerging from the collapse of th
Delegates at the First (Founding) Congress, 1919
Delegates at the Second World Congress, 1920
Vladimir Lenin addressing the Third World Congress, 1921
Lenin, Nikolai Bukharin, and Grigory Zinoviev at the Second World Congress