November 7, 1917, illustration Hugo Gellert USA, 1930 (October 25, 1917 (Old Style/Julian) corresponds to November 7, 1917 in the modern Gregorian calendar.) October 25, 1917 Again I think, re-picturing the way My land has passed, the battles it has seen. The world has never lived through such a day As that great day in 1917. It was and still remains the source of sources And we are living witnesses to this; That day the working people mustered forces And first emerged from