sentences:  In December 1910 he joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, and he was attracted to "Zvezda" and went on to work for the Bolshevik newspaper, Pravda.He was arrested, and allowed to emigrate, but after running into trouble with the German police, he returned illegally to Russia, and was again arrested and exiled to Arkhangel, but released in 1913 under the amnesty called to mark the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty.He enlisted in the navy on the outbreak of war, and in 1917 he received the Naval rank of Midshipman ("michman") but he did not participate in World War I.