He remained a self-described " non-factional social democrat " until August 1917 when he joined Lenin and the Bolsheviks as their positions assembled and he came to believe that Lenin was right on the issue of the party.

In 1917, Sun Yat-sen moved his base of operations to Guangzhou, and Chiang joined him in 1918.

In 1917, he joined an artillery regiment in the Austro-Hungarian Army and fought on the Italian front.

On one side were Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria ( the Central Powers / Triple Alliance ), while on the other side stood Serbia and the Triple Entente – the loose coalition of France, Britain and Russia, which were joined by Italy in 1915, Romania in 1916 and by the United States in 1917.

The United States joined with the Allies in April 1917.

He joined the Bolsheviks immediately prior to the 1917 October Revolution, and eventually became a leader within the Party.

Beria was educated at a technical school in Sukhumi and joined the Bolsheviks in March 1917 while a student in the Baku Polytechnicum ( now known as the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy ).

*: King Vajiravudh on the 22 of July 1917 decided to declare war on the Central Powers and joined the Entente Powers in their fight on the Western Front.

In 1917, UIU male students joined the armed forces during World War I, while women students organized American Red Cross classes on campus ; the UIU gym became a barracks, and the athletic field was the scene of military drills.

In 1917, he joined the Supermarine Aviation Works at Southampton.

In 1917, Rudolph Valentino joined an operetta company that traveled to Utah where it disbanded.

He joined the army in 1916, was commissioned in the Royal Sussexs in 1917 and was wounded on the Western Front.

Humphrey's contribution was chiefly financial and organizational ; funding it from the earnings of the family brace business and Managing director until he joined the RFC in 1917.

Once the February 1917 Russian revolution had broken out Trotsky admitted the importance of a Bolshevik organisation, and joined the Bolsheviks in July 1917.

He joined the British Army in 1918 as part of the 38th Battalion Royal Fusiliers ( Jewish Legion ) part of Chaytor's Force ( following the Balfour Declaration in November 1917 ).

Grand Duchesses Tatiana and Anastasia and the dog Ortino in captivity at Tsarskoe Selo in the spring of 1917 At Yekaterinburg, Tatiana occasionally joined her younger sisters in chatting with some of the guards over tea, asking them questions about their families and talking about her hopes for a new life in England when they were released.

In 1917 he joined the Revolutionary movement and became an active anti-War campaigner, serving on revolutionary committees after the March Revolution.

Chen joined the faculty of Peking University in 1917 as the university's dean, at the invitation of Cai Yuanpei, who also paid for moving Chen's journal to Beijing.

The Mensheviks supported a looser party discipline within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903, as did Leon Trotsky, in Our Political Tasks, although Trotsky joined ranks with the Bolsheviks in 1917.

He joined the German army in 1917, during World War I.

When the US joined the war, in 1917, Addams started to be strongly criticized.

When the First World War broke out, Bliss joined the army, and fought in France as an officer in the Royal Fusiliers until 1917 and then in the Grenadier Guards for the rest of the war.

He joined the Australian Journalists ' Association in 1917 and was elected Western Australian President in 1920.

In April 1917, the United States entered World War I and shortly afterwards, Scott, then 19 years old, joined the Army.

It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia ( 1917 – 1931 ) and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia ( 1945 ).

A successor statute, the Newlands Act of 1913, which created the Board of Mediation, proved to be more effective, but was largely superseded when the federal government nationalized the railroads in 1917.

( A seventh volume was commissioned by his successor as society president, Joseph Rutherford, and published in 1917.

After the 1917 elections showed a heavy gain for the Liberals and Social Democrats, however, Gustaf was forced to appoint Staaff's successor, Nils Eden, as prime minister.

It is the successor to Fort Devens, a military post that operated from 1917 to 1996.

Sifton's 1917 victory would be the Liberals ' last: his successor, Charles Stewart, would lose the 1921 election to the newly-political UFA.

The Labour Party, led by Thomas Johnson from 1917, as successor to such organisations as D. D. Sheehan's ( independent Labour MPs ) Irish Land and Labour Association, declined to contest the 1918 general election, in order to allow the election to take the form of a plebiscite on Ireland's constitutional status ( although some candidates did run in Belfast constituencies under the Labour banner against Unionist candidates ).

The Titles Deprivation Act 1917 allows the lawful successor of a deprived dukedom to petition for its restoration, though no successor to the Duke of Albany has done so.

Following the outbreak of World War I, Hertling supported the policy of Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg but declined to become his successor in 1917.

He and his successor as ' Recording Officer ' ( a Colonel Merewether ) later collaborated on an official history entitled The Indian Corps in France ( published 1917 ).

A successor statute, the Newlands Act, passed in 1913 proved more effective, but was largely superseded when the federal government nationalized the railroads in 1917.

Fort Devens in central Massachusetts, which opened in 1917, was named after him, as was its successor, the Census-designated place Devens, Massachusetts.

Montes was able to finish his second term and in 1917 transferred power to his hand-picked successor, the blue-blooded José Gutiérrez Guerra.

From May 1916 to February 1917 he was Chief of the Aviation Section, U. S. Signal Corps, the first successor of the Aeronautical Division, before being promoted to major general and appointed Chief Signal Officer during World War I.

Its predecessor was Tongyeong Marine College, the successor of Gyeongnam Susan Jeonseupso ( 경남수산전습소 ) founded in 1917.

Los Angeles is home to two professional art colleges, Otis College of Art and Design, which was founded in 1917 as Otis Art Institute, and California Institute of the Arts, founded in 1961 as successor of the Chouinard Art Institute.

Yao Zongxun ( Simplified Chinese: 尧宗荀 ; Traditional Chinese: 堯宗荀 ; Pinyin: Yáo Zōngxún ; 1917 – 1985 ) was the formal successor of Wang Xiangzhai, founder of the martial art Yiquan Father of Yao Chengguang and Yao Chengrong both currently teaching in Beijing, China.

November 27, 1917, Jakob Spreng dies age 54, and his successor Alfred Geiser enters upon the office as General Manager.

He taught at the Conservatory in Florence ( director from 1917 to 1923 ), directed the Milan Conservatory from 1923, and was Respighi's successor at the Academy of St. Cecilia in Rome from 1936 to 1958 ) His students included Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Olga Rudge, Manoah Leide-Tedesco and Franco Donatoni.