ABSTRACT
Pollitt died on 27 June 1960, on the liner Orion on his way back from Australia. By that time the CPGB had split over the Soviet invasion of Hungary in November 1956 and the dispute over free speech within the Party. These were problems which he recognized from his own, quite successful, period as General Secretary of the CPGB, during which time he always accepted the Moscow line, even if he was sometimes hesitant in so doing. Not surprisingly, then, to many Britons Pollitt was ‘Moscow’s man in Britain’, an impression he did little to remove.
