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The question refers to the passage below: “Death had to take…

The question refers to the passage below: “Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she’d made for herself. They never even knew what she did die of. Some spoke of a chill. But the truth was that she died from poverty, from the filth and the weariness of her wretched life.”                                                                            –Émile Zola, L’Assommoir, 1877 Which of the following reformers would have been LEAST likely to advocate government intervention regarding the conditions described in the passage?

The question refers to the passage below: “Through all these…

The question refers to the passage below: “Through all these horrible days, I constantly met Witte1. We very often met in the early morning to part only in the evening when night fell. There were only two ways open; to find an energetic soldier and crush the rebellion by sheer force. That would mean rivers of blood, and in the end we would be where had started. The other way out would be to give to the people their civil rights, freedom of speech and press, also to have laws conformed by a State Duma – that of course would be a constitution. Witte defends this very energetically. Almost everybody I had an opportunity of consulting, is of the same opinion. Witte put it quite clearly to me that he would accept the Presidency of the Council of Ministers only on the condition that his programme was agreed to, and his actions not interfered with. We discussed it for two days and in the end, invoking God’s help I signed. This terrible decision which nevertheless I took quite consciously. I had no one to rely on except honest Trepov2. There was no other way out but to cross oneself and give what everyone was asking for.” 1Sergei Witte—advisor to the tsar 2Dmitri Trepov—Governor General of St. Petersburg Tsar Nicholas II, diary entry regarding the October Manifesto, 1905 Which of the following ideologies would have contributed most to the actions of the revolutionaries?