George Henry Bolsover CBE (18 November 1910 – 15 April 1990) was the director of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London from 1947 to 1976.
[1] Bolsover was born at 12 Powys Street, Hindsford, Atherton, Lancashire, England, the son of a cotton worker and his wife.
After returning to Britain he was appointed director of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), London, from which he retired in 1976.
[1] He presided over a period of growth in interest in Russian and East European studies and SSEES' post war expansion.
[3] At the time he joined SSEES, the department was regarded as a bed of pro-Soviet sentiment influenced by Andrew Rothstein, a founding member of the British Communist Party.