The document discusses the political groups that inspired the early stages of the Russian Revolution between 1905-1917. These included liberals, who wanted religious tolerance and limits on royal power, and radicals, who supported women's suffrage and opposed wealth inequality. Socialists believed private property should be socially controlled, as advocated by thinkers like Robert Owen and Karl Marx, whose ideas on communism and worker control spread among European socialist groups and parties in Germany, Britain, and France that fought for better working conditions.