During World War I and the rise of Germanism, the ( Svecomans ) began covert collaboration with Imperial Germany, and from 1915 – 1917 a " Jäger " ( Jääkärit ) battalion consisting of 1, 900 Finnish volunteers was trained in Germany.

During 1917 work was suspended due to the shortage of labour and materials.

During her years at Washington Seminary, Mitchell's brother, Stephens, was away studying at Harvard College ( 1915 – 1917 ), and he left in May 1917 to enlist in the army, about a month after the U. S. declared war on Germany.

During and after the World War I, Lowry acted as Director of Shell-filling ( 1917 – 1919 ) and worked for the Trench Warfare Committee, Chemical Warfare Committee and Ordnance Committee.

During a Senate debate in 1917, as Senator Joseph L. Bristow cataloged a long list of what he felt the country needed, Marshall leaned over to one of his clerks and said, " What this country needs is more of this ; what this country needs is more of that.

During his convalescence, Browning wrote scripts, and did not return to active film work until 1917.

During the Russian Civil War, Tsaritsyn was under Soviet control starting from November 1917.

During his term in office, Wilson gave a well-known Flag Day speech that fueled the wave of anti-German sentiment sweeping the country in 1917 – 18.

* During World War I, in Russia the Bolshevik putsch took over the Russian Revolution of 1917, precipitating the founding of the Soviet Union and the rise of communism.

During the October Revolution of 1917, upon the storming of the Winter Palace, the Bolshevik Revolution actually paused for a week or so as the rioters gorged on the substantial stores of cognac and wines.

During the First World War, a number of barracks and voluntary hospitals were set up around the city, and in 1917 a German bomber crash-landed near Broad Oak Road.

During the years 1920 – 1923, Holst's popularity grew through the success of The Planets and The Hymn of Jesus ( 1917 ) ( based on the Apocryphal gospels ), and the publication of a new opera, The Perfect Fool ( a satire of a work by Wagner ).

During the Russian Revolution of 1917 Rosenberg supported the counter-revolutionaries ; following their failure he emigrated to Germany in 1918 along with Max Scheubner-Richter who served as something of a mentor to Rosenberg and to his ideology.

During the First World War he fought on the Western Front, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for conspicuous gallantry during the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917.

During World War I from 1917 to 1918, the United States Army executed 35 soldiers, but all were convicted of rape and / or murder of civilians and not for military offenses.

During World War I and World War II and war aftermaths of 1917 – 1925 and 1940 – 1950 there was shortage of change, and so 1 krone and 2 kroner notes were printed as " coin notes ".

During the October Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks established an institution called Proletkult ( the Proletarian Cultural and Enlightenment Organizations ) which sought to put all arts into the service of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

During this time he also worked on other Edison Company productions including Sam Loyd's The Puzzling Billboard and Nippy's Nightmare ( both 1917 ), which were the first stop-motion films to combine live actors with stop motion models.

During the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland several prominent figures involved in it were in Lewes Prison, including Éamon de Valera ( 1882 – 1975 ); Thomas Ashe ( 1885 – 1917 ); Frank Lawless ( 1871 – 1922 ); and Harry Boland ( 1887 – 1922 ).

During the October Revolution of 1917, Samara was seized by the Bolsheviks.

During the time of the Russian civil war from 1917 to 1921, many young Baltic Germans signed voluntarily into the newly formed Estonian and Latvian armies to help secure the independence of these countries from Russia.

During wartime service in the National Guard, in 1917 he married Alice Stanley.

During the First World War, he enlisted in May 1917 and served with the American Expeditionary Forces from October 1917 to July 1919.

During the First World War Korzybski served as an intelligence officer in the Russian Army.

During the war, the Azeri armed forces were also aided by Turkish military advisers, and Russian, Ukrainian, Chechen and Afghan mercenaries.

During the years 1106-1107 A. D., a Russian Orthodox Abbot named Daniel made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and recorded his experiences.

* 1242 – During a battle on the ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.

During his trip in Russia, Chiang met Leon Trotsky and other Soviet leaders, but quickly came to the conclusion that the Russian model of government was not suitable for China.

During the Ili Rebellion and Peitashan incident, Chiang deployed Hui troops against Uyghur mobs in Turfan, and against Soviet Russian and Mongols at Peitashan.

During the 1950s and 60s, Afghanistan was able to use the Russian and American need for allies during the Cold War as a way to receive economic assistance from both countries.

During the Nobel ceremony in December 1974, Hayek met the Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

For example, one key meeting location was in the U. S. at the Dakin Building, then owned by American philanthropist Henry Dakin, who had extensive Russian contacts: During the late 1980s, as glasnost and perestroika led to the liquidation of the Soviet empire, the Dakin building was the location for a series of groups facilitating United States-Russian contacts.

During the last years of the Russian Empire, in the early 20th century, many authors continued to write in the gothic fiction genre, including historian and historical fiction writer Alexander Valentinovich Amfiteatrov, Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev, who developed psychological characterization, symbolist Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, Alexander Grin, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin.

During the Crimean War the British occupied Piraeus to prevent Greece declaring war on the Ottomans as a Russian ally.

During the siege, on 8 February 1913, the Russian pilot N. de Sackoff, flying for the Greeks, became the first pilot ever shot down in combat, when his biplane was hit by ground fire following a bomb run on the walls of Fort Bizani.

* During and after the Russian Revolution, widespread destruction of religious and secular imagery took place, as well as destruction of imagery related to the Czar.

During this period, the Russian administrator Vasile Balabanov had control much of the time with General Dootoff.

During the first part of the trip, Lönnrot returned to Akonlahti in Russian Karelia, where he gathered 80 poems and a total of 800 verses.

During the Cold War the government of the USSR was located in the Moscow Kremlin but now the Russian government occupies a building outside it.

During the Russian Revolution, anarchists such as Nestor Makhno worked to create and defend — through the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine — anarchist communism in the Free Territory of the Ukraine from 1919 before being conquered by the Bolsheviks in 1921.

During the Russian Revolution, anarchists such as Nestor Makhno worked to create and defend-through the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine-anarchist communism in the Free Territory of the Ukraine from 1919 before being conquered by the Bolsheviks in 1921.

During the Russian Revolution, anarchists such as Nestor Makhno worked to create and defend — through the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine — anarchist communism in the Free Territory of the Ukraine from 1919 before being conquered by the Bolsheviks in 1921.

During heavy fighting he was captured by the Austrians in April 1915, when his division became isolated from the rest of the Russian forces.

During the Russian civil war, in October 1919 White Army commander Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich advanced on Petrograd from the side of Detskoye Selo, apparently intending to capture the radio station to announce a victory over the Bolsheviks.

During this time the British and Russian Empires were vying for influence in Central Asia, a rivalry which would become known as The Great Game.

During the 1990s, the Russian Stechkin APS was once again put into service, as a weapon for VIP bodyguards and for anti-terrorist hostage rescue teams that needed the capability for full automatic fire in emergencies.

During World War I, the Battle of Tannenberg and the First and Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes between Imperial Germany and the Russian Empire took place within the borders of Masuria in 1914.