Modern History PYQ 354 of 636 · Trade Union and Communist Party

Who was the first Indian to be the member of Communist International?

  1. AM.N. Roy
  2. BMuzaffar Ahmad
  3. CS.A. Dange
  4. DNone of the above

40th B.P.S.C. (Pre) 1995

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Correct answer: (a) M.N. Roy

Explanation

The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International, was established in March, 1919 in Moscow. Vladimir Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) and the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) played a major role in the formation of the Comintern. M.N. Roy went to Moscow on Lenin’s invitation and became a member of the Communist International. He was the first Indian to become a member of the Communist International.

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