Pollitt’s accounts of the Second World War, 1939-1959
Pollitt’s accounts of the Second World War, 1939-1959
Collection: Agitation and the Internal Politics of British Communism, 1907-1977 Volumes Pollitt’s accounts of the Second World War, 1939-1959
Two documents covering the outbreak of the Second World War from Pollitt’s perspective. They discuss the tricky internal politics of the Communist Party, who had to support Stalin’s deal with Hitler in 1939, as well as memoirs of Pollitt’s experience of the opening years of the war.
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Pollitt’s account of Communist Party policy in the Second World War, 1959
Pollitt’s recollections of events surrounding the Communist Party at the outbreak of the Second World War. The content discusses Pollitt’s own role within that period, as he was relieved of...
Date:1959-1959Contributor:
Identifier:cp-ind-poll-12-02
Pollitt between anti-fascism and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, 1939
Contains quotations from Soviet politicians during the Second World War, newspaper clippings and correspondence documenting Pollitt’s removal as General Secretary for refusing to support the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a ‘Political Review’...
Date:1939-1939Contributor:
Identifier:cp-ind-poll-12-01
