Political Science · Political Theory
UGC NET June 2025 Political Science
Which Russian Marxist was assassinated in Mexico in 1940?
ANikita Khrushchev
BKarl Marx
CJoseph Stalin
DLeon Trotsky ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Leon Trotsky — The Russian Marxist assassinated in Mexico in 1940 was Leon Trotsky, so the answer is option 4.
Explanation
★The Russian Marxist assassinated in Mexico in 1940 was Leon Trotsky, so the answer is option 4.
★Trotsky, a leader of the 1917 October Revolution and founder of the Red Army, was killed in Mexico City in August 1940 by a Stalinist agent.
★He had been expelled from the Soviet Union in 1929 after losing the power struggle to Stalin.
★His ideas include the theory of permanent revolution, set against Stalin's socialism in one country.
★Khrushchev and Stalin died of natural causes, and Karl Marx died in London in 1883.
★Spotting cue: assassinated in Mexico in 1940 is always Trotsky.
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