Why is worker-peasant language important in understanding the global influence of the Russian Revolution?

Correct answer: Because it placed oppressed classes at the political centre

The direct answer is D: worker-peasant language placed oppressed classes at the political centre. Before revolutionary socialist politics, governments were often shaped mainly by monarchs, nobles, wealthy landowners, or other privileged groups. By speaking directly of workers and peasants, revolutionary leaders presented these large but politically weak groups as people who should organise, claim rights, and participate in power. The reasoning is: workers produced goods and peasants worked the land; both often faced poverty, dependence, or exploitation; political language naming them made their interests visible; this helped spread the idea that they could become agents of social change. D is correct. A is wrong because the language did not address only nobles; it deliberately appealed to ordinary working people. B is wrong because rights of kings were not its central concern. C is wrong because calling colonialism civilisation does not explain the class-based appeal of worker-peasant language. The phrase does not mean workers and peasants had identical experiences everywhere; it means they were treated as central political groups. Exam cue: when a slogan names workers and peasants, connect it with class politics, representation, and power.