A woman who was likely a government employee reads a newspaper inside a museum in Khabarovsk, a city of about 600,000 that dominates the northern banks of the enormous Amur River, south of which lies China. This museum was devoted in part to the glories of the Bolshevik coup and subsequent Russian Civil War, which led to the triumph of Soviet power across the old Russian empire and beyond.  Helped along by decades of Soviet-sponsored "history," many people still confuse the genuine Russian Revolution of March 1917 (February under the old Russian calendar) with the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks the following November (October in Russia).