1/8/2023 News Abroad tags: Vladimir Putin, Russian history by Steven Knipp Steven Knipp is a veteran journalist currently based in Asia who has also reported from Russia. A street market in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, 1992 The year was 1992. Early winter. I’m a young reporter on my first trip—of many to come—to Russia. I am there to report on the 75th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, which brought Soviet communism to the people of Russia.