All was well until the OctoberRevolution, when Pavel Ryabushinsky and the rest of the clan fled to France.
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The East has always had very close ties with the Russian Empire and joined the Soviet Union shortly after the Great OctoberRevolution in 1917.
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Depressingly, this was a smaller share than on the eve of the Octoberrevolution of 1917, when a quarter of the population was estimated to have been middle-class.