How do paragraphs 1-3 contribute to the text’s central ideas? a. the first three paragraphs propose the central idea that the 1917 bolshevik takeover was technically not a revolution. b. the first three paragraphs lament the cost of the russian revolution and the negative change the country would experience under communist rule. c. the first paragraph defines “revolution” as a force of the people’s will to overthrow the government, as opposed to the incorrect use that describes a small party’s forceful coup; this introduces the central idea and question: was the russian revolution a true revolution? d. the first three paragraphs introduce the idea that the russian revolution—rather than being a simple coup, in which sometimes the term “revolution” is incorrectly used—was a complex chain of events and cause commonlit. org russian revolution