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What did Ivan Bolotnikov want?

a. to give Russia to the Poles to rule
b. to become tsar
c. to become patriarch
d. kill all rich people, make new egalitarian social order

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Final answer:

Ivan Bolotnikov aimed to create an egalitarian social order in Russia, challenging the existing hierarchy and serfdom rather than seeking a specific leadership role or exterminating a class.

Step-by-step explanation:

Ivan Bolotnikov was a leader of a popular uprising in Russia in the early 17th century known as the Bolotnikov Rebellion. He did not seek to simply give Russia to the Poles to rule, nor was he striving to become tsar or patriarch, nor was he intending specifically to kill all rich people.

Bolotnikov's principal goal was to create a new egalitarian social order, free of the serfdom and oppression that characterized the Russian social hierarchy of the time. Inspired by earlier movements and sentiments that surfaced in the wake of various acts of oppression and serfdom, such as those voiced by Mikhail Bakunin and later the Bolshevik movement, Bolotnikov's rebellion was ultimately about dramatically changing the existing social and political structures to liberate the peasants and create more equality.

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