Before the Russian Revolution, what ideas did Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin have about changing the government? A. The people should organize and vote for changes in the Russian constitution. B. A small party of professional revolutionaries should initiate a revolution. C. Historical forces would naturally bring about a workers’ revolution. D. Russian peasants needed to push for representation in the Russian parliament.

B. A small party of professional revolutionaries should initiate a revolution.

Explanation:

Lenin saw the role of a small but ruthless revolutionary party inspired by Marxist  ideas as the vanguard of the revolutionary class of capitalism, the proletariat. It had to act effectively to lead the proletariat and topple the bourgeois system , and then install the dictatorship of the proletariat  - with the vanguard party at the helm - as a first act that would lead to the construction of socialism and communism.

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