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

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

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Final Answer : E, Explanation :  The Mensheviks believed that Russia was primarily a peasant-based society and that a proletarian revolution would not be possible without a preceding bourgeois revolution. They argued that the bourgeoisie would have to take power in order to modernize Russia and that the working class would then take power from the bourgeoisie. This perspective put the Mensheviks at odds with the Bolsheviks who believed that a socialist revolution could occur directly from the working class without the need for a bourgeois revolution.

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