Boris Brasol
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Boris Leo Brasol ( March 31, 1885 - March 19, 1963), lawyer and literary critic, was a White Russian
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 immigrant to the United States
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.

Biography

Boris Brasol was born in Poltava
Poltava
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, Ukraine, Russia, in 1885. His father was the notable homeopath Lev Brasol. After graduation from the law department of St Petersburg University, Brasol served in the Russian Ministry of Justice. In 1912 he was sent to Lausanne
Lausanne
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 to study forensic science.

During World War I Brasol held the rank of Lieutenant in the Tsar
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's army. In 1916 he was recalled from the front and sent to the US to work as a lawyer for an Anglo-Russian purchasing committee. After the October Revolution
October Revolution
The October Revolution , also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution , Red October, the October Uprising or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a political revolution and a part of the Russian Revolution of 1917...

 in Russia Brasol stayed in the US as an emigrant.

Several authors link Brasol's name with the first U. S. edition of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion which was titled "The Protocols and World Revolution, including a Translation and Analysis of the 'Protocols of the Meetings of the Zionist Men of Wisdom'" ( Boston: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers, 1920 ). Brasol pursued a successful career as a literary critic and criminologist and published several books in each of these fields. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York.

Some of Brasol papers are preserved in the Library of Congress Manuscript Collection.

Publications

  • 1920: Socialism vs. Civilization. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
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  • 1921: The World at the Cross Roads. London, Hutchinson
  • 1922: The Balance Sheet of Sovietism. New York, Duffield
  • 1927: Elements of Crime (Psycho-Social Interpretation). Oxford University Press
  • 1934: The Mighty Three: Poushkin - Gogol - Dostoievsky. New York: William Farquhar Payson
  • 1938: Oscar Wilde: the Man, the Artist, the Martyr. New York: Scribner's Sons

Translations

  • 1949: F. M. Dostoevsky, The Diary of a Writer, trans. Boris Brasol. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
  • 1954: --do.-- New York: George Braziller

Protocols

  • Anonymous
The Protocols and World Revolution
including a Translation and Analysis of the
"Protocols of the Meetings of the Zionist Men of Wisdom"
A digital copy of the original 1920 text is currently available through Online Books Page
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: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=olbp39069

http://books.google.com/books?id=_wYNAAAAIAAJ.
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