Salme Dutt (born Salme Anette Murrik) (29 August 1888 - 30 August 1964) was an Estonian-born 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 (present-day Estonia), Russian Empire, and spent her childhood in Valga. She was expelled from gymnasium due to revolutionary activities in 1905 and moved to Russia proper, living in Moscow and Siberia. She later lived in Finland, before moving to Britain.
During the early years of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Salme Murrik, a Comintern agent, acted as Palme Dutt's link to Moscow.[1] Salme Murrik had been directed to Britain on Lenin's orders to participate in forming the Communist Party there.
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 London.