It still remains a mystery what happened in October and November 1917. Did a great and socialist revolution really take place, or, as they now say, a tragedy on a global scale? We, living today, need to figure this out, says the writer-historian R.K. Balandin, after all, everything that happened in 1917 affects the present day, largely determining the future of our country. This book opens a new fascinating series of the Veche publishing house, “Secrets of the Soviet Era.”