Salme Dutt
Deceased Person
1888 – 1964
Who was Salme Dutt?
Salme Dutt was a British communist politician, wife of Rajani Palme Dutt.
The Finnish-Estonian author Hella Wuolijoki was her elder sister. Murrik was also grandaunt of Finnish Social Democratic politician Erkki Tuomioja.
Salme Murrik was born in Helme Parish, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire, and spent her childhood in Valga. She was expelled from the A.S. Pushkin Gymnasium in Tartu due to her participation in the Revolution of 1905, and moved to Moscow, and to Siberia, and Finland before settling in Britain.
During the early years of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Murrik, a Comintern agent, acted as Dutt's link to Moscow. Salme Murrik had been directed to Britain on Lenin's orders to participate in forming the Communist Party there. She remained an ardent admirer of Stalin even after Khruschchev's 1956 secret speech critical of Stalin's cult of personality.
Salme Dutt's treatment of the Chartist movement, When England Arose, was published in 1939. A collection of poems, entitled Lucifer and Other Poems, was published in London in 1966. Salme Dutt died in the city in 1964.
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- Born
- Aug 29, 1888
Estonia - Also known as
- Salme Anette Pekkala-Dutt
- Salme Murrik
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Eino Pekkala
(1913 - 1924/01)
- Eino Pekkala
- Nationality
- Estonia
- Died
- Aug 30, 1964
England
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on July 23, 2013
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