What policy did Bolsheviks adopt toward private control over key resources?

Correct answer: Reducing private control

Direct answer: Option A, reducing private control. Bolshevik ideology favoured socialist control over major economic resources. The reasoning is: key resources and means of production strongly influence the economy; private owners had controlled many such assets before the revolution; the Bolsheviks sought to transfer important control to the state or collective institutions; therefore private control was reduced. A is correct because it expresses this broad policy direction. B is the opposite of the policy and is therefore wrong. C is wrong because the Bolsheviks opposed restoration of the old royal order rather than handing resources back to the royal family. D is wrong because selling key resources to the Church was not the stated general policy. This does not mean every private activity disappeared immediately or in exactly the same way; it means the general direction was greater state control. Memory cue: Bolshevik economic policy—less private ownership, more public or state control.