What perspective did Socialist Revolutionaries in Russia have during the early twentieth century?

A) Socialist Revolutionaries believed revolution was only possible through democratic means.
B) Socialist Revolutionaries saw the peasantry as the revolutionary class.
C) Socialist Revolutionaries supported the First World War as a means of increasing Russian power.
D) Socialist Revolutionaries thought only a minority of workers would be politically conscious and that they would have to be led by intellectuals.
E) Socialist Revolutionaries insisted that a bourgeois revolution would have to precede the proletarian revolution.

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Hilal Basci · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : B, Explanation :  Socialist Revolutionaries believed that the peasantry, rather than the industrial working class, was the revolutionary class in Russia. They saw the rural population as oppressed by the wealthy landowning class, and believed in redistributing land to the peasants as a means of achieving their revolutionary goals.

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