E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

* Robert E. Cox ( 1917 – 1989 ) who conducted the " Gleanings for ATMs " column in Sky and Telescope magazine for 21 years.

* 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany ( see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress ).

* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )

* 1917 – Leonora Carrington, British surrealist painter ( d. 2011 )

* 1917 – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.

* 1917 – Helen Forrest, American singer ( d. 1999 )

* 1877 – Léon Flameng, French cyclist ( d. 1917 )

* 1917 – Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player ( d. 1986 )

* 1917 – World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.

* 1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor ( d. 1997 )

Category: Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( 1917 – 1925 )

* 1917 – Sid Gordon, American baseball player ( d. 1975 )

* 1917 – Scott Joplin, American musician and composer ( b. 1868 )

Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.

* 1917 – Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader ( d. 1995 )

* 1917 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician ( b. 1849 )

Bloch was highly interdisciplinary, influenced by the geography of Paul Vidal de la Blache ( 1845 – 1918 ) and the sociology of Émile Durkheim ( 1858 – 1917 ).

* 1860 – Alan Leo, English astrologer ( d. 1917 )

* 1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch spy ( d. 1917 )

The first of these involved the replacement of the Tsar by a liberal Provisional Government in March, 1917 ; ;

In 1917, Mussolini as leader of the Fasci of Revolutionary Action praised the October Revolution, however Mussolini later became unimpressed with Lenin, regarding him as merely a new version of Tsar Nicholas.

The Tsar regained his authority after the crisis of 1905, reclaimed his role as the Grand Duke of Finland and, during the second period of Russification between 1908 and 1917, neutralized the functions and powers of the new parliament.

The more severe program of Russification, called " the second period of oppression 1908 – 1917 " by the Finns, was halted on 15 March 1917 by the removal of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II.

Trotsky was living in New York City when the February Revolution of 1917 overthrew Tsar Nicholas II.

In March 1917, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated his throne and a provisional government quickly filled the vacuum, proclaiming Russia a republic months later.

The Tsar was deposed and replaced by a provisional government in the first revolution of February 1917 ( March in the Gregorian calendar ; the older Julian calendar was in use in Russia at the time ).

In December, a small group of nobles assassinated Rasputin and in January 1917 the Tsar's uncle, Grand Duke Nicholas, was asked indirectly by Prince Lvov whether he would be prepared to take over the throne from his nephew, Tsar Nicholas II.

After the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established during the February Revolution of 1917.

In Russia, the 1917 February revolution resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the establishment of Bolshevik Russia and a civil war between the Bolshevik Red Army and the monarchist White Army from 1917 to 1921.

Grand Duchess Tatiana in 1916 From left to right, Grand Duchess Olga, Tsar Nicholas II, Grand Duchess Anastasia, and Grand Duchess Tatiana at Tobolsk in the winter of 1917 – 1918.

In October 1917, City Council of Częstochowa demanded permission to destroy the monument of Tsar Alexander II, to which General Governor of Warsaw Hans Hartwig von Beseler agreed.

< center > From left to right, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Tsar Nicholas II, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia in captivity at Tobolsk in the winter of 1917.

Though the terms " Soviet Russia " and " Soviet Union " are synonymous in everyday vocabulary, when we talk about the foundations of the Soviet Union, " Soviet Russia " refers to the few years after the abdication of the crown of the Russian Empire by Tsar Nicholas II ( in 1917 ), but before the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922.

Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne following the February Revolution of 1917 ( or March, depending on Calendar Dating Styles.

The Russian Provisional Government was installed immediately following the fall of the Tsar by the Provisional Committee of the State Duma in early March 1917 and received conditional support of the Mensheviks.

The generally accepted end of this transitional revolutionary period, which will lead to the creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR ) lies with the assault and capture of the poorly defended Winter Palace ( the traditional home and symbol of power of the Tsar ) on the evening of October 26, 1917.

The overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II by the February Revolution of 1917 allowed Pravda to reopen.

In years 1915 – 1917, during World War I, the Stavka, the headquarters of the Russian Imperial Army functioned in the city and the Tsar, Nicholas II, spent long periods here as Commander-in-Chief.

On the night of 27 – 28 February 1917, Michael attempted to return to Gatchina from Petrograd, where he had been in conference with Rodzyanko and from where he had telegraphed the Tsar, but revolutionary patrols and sporadic fire prevented his progress.

She married Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in 1894, and was killed along with her husband and children after the Russian revolution of 1917.