Which of the following people or groups mentioned in the article would be most likely to agree with the idea that the government should take over businesses to promote equality?
a czar nicholas ii
b the duma
c lenin
d the anti-bolsheviks

the answer would be a).

populist movement, in u.s. history, politically oriented coalition of agrarian reformers in the middle west and south that advocated a wide range of economic and political legislation in the late 19th century. thus in 1892 their leaders organized the populist, or people's, party, and the farmers' alliances melted away.