About the book: year / "The Day of the October Revolution of 1917 - November 7 - from a once national holiday in the USSR has turned into one of the most controversial holiday dates in the calendar of post-Soviet Russia .The new authorities are trying in every possible way to get rid of it: they either call it a kind of “Day of Accord and Reconciliation”, so that in news reports on television and radio on this day sometimes there is not even a mention of the October Revolution, or they generally want to replace it with the “Day of National Unity” , timed to coincide with the victory of the militias of Minin and Pozharsky over the Polish invaders in the 17th century. "