With those measures, but at the same time there is an entrenched elite that has grown fat off the system, and its going to fight back, its going to push back, so he has this balance between popularity on the street and raising tensions within the elites in society. Much will now depend on the continued loyalty of the tribes and their leaders. Modern saudi arabia only became united in 1932. There will be now fears that the glue which held it together risks becoming dangerously unstuck. Frank gardner, bbc news. A century ago this week, bolshevikforces, encouraged by vladimir lenin, stormed the Winter Palace in st petersburg. The provisional government collapsed, and a new government of russia, led by the soviets, was proclaimed. But a hundred years on, the anniversary of the Russian Revolution is being marked without fanfare. Our special correspondent allan little reports from russia, on how successive leaders have tried to shape the countrys revolutionary past, to influence the present.