Boris Brasol

Boris Brasol

Boris Leo Brasol (or Brazol) (1885 Poltava - 1963), a White Russian, a Russian immigrant to the United States, lawyer and a literary critic.

Biography

Boris Brasol was born in Poltava in 1885. His father was notable homeopath Leo Brasol. After graduation from law department of St. Petersburg University Brasol served in the Russian ministry of justice. In 1912 he was sent to Lausanne to study forensic science.

During the world war I Brasol served in the rank of a Lieutenant in the Tsar's military. In 1916 he was recalled from the front and sent to US to work as a lawyer in Anglo-Russian committee purchasing committee. After the October Revolution in Russia Brasol stayed in US as an emigrant.

Several authors link Brasol's name with the first USA edition of the notorious Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, but there is no evidence of Brasol's involvement in this publication. Under the lead title, The Protocols and World Revolution, the text was published in Boston, in 1920, by the prestigious publishing house of Small, Maynard & Company.

Brasol pursued a successful career as a literary critic and criminologist and published several books in each of these fields.

Some of Brasol papers are preserved in the Library of Congress Manuscript collection [ [http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/mss-use.html Manuscript reading room. Using the Collections] ] .

Publications

* Socialism vs.Civilization. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.
* [http://www.archive.org/details/worldatcrossroad00brasrich The world at the cross roads] . Boris Brasol. London, Hutchinson. 1921
* [http://www.archive.org/details/balancesheetofso00bras The balance sheet of sovietism] . Boris Brasol. New York. Duffield. 1922
* Elements of Crime (Psycho-Social Interpretation). Oxford University Press, 1927.
* The Mighty Three Poushkin - Gogol - Dostoievsky. New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1934.
* Oscar Wilde: the Man, the Artist, the Martyr. Scribner's Sons. 1938.

Translations

* F. M. Dostoevsky, The Diary of a Writer, trans. Boris Brasol. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949
* The Diary of a Writer. by Feodor M. Dostoievsky; Translated by Boris Brasol. New York: George Braziller, 1954

Protocols

*Anonymous: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, 1920)::A digital copy of the original 1920 text is currently available through Online Books Page: [http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=olbp39069] [http://books.google.com/books?id=_wYNAAAAIAAJ] .

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