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In 2017, on the centenary of Russia's October Revolution, he spoke to the BBC about what it was like to witness two world leaders having a spat during the Cold War.

Indignant, he joined the 2019 youth protests over government corruption and the Iranian presence in Iraq, known in the Arab world as the October Revolution.

He was in Moscow during the October Revolution, and some of the book’s most memorable passages describe his hiding with neighbors as Bolsheviks and Kadets fought in the streets.

After the October Revolution in 1917, Ukraine cycled through a succession of short-lived polities before its absorption into the Soviet Union.

It won first place that year in the society’s competition to honor the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution.