Word: brasol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next came an illustrated lecture by Colonel B. K. Eustace, noted British sportsman, who, on November 21, described his own experiences in the jungle with the aid of several reels of motion picture film. A week later Mr. B. L. Brasol, former municipal attorney of Petrograd, portrayed the dangers toward which the Bolshevists are heading and pointed out the world disaster which their organization is now seeking to bring about...
Taking "Russia, Old and New" as his subject, Mr. B. L. Brasol, former municipal attorney of Petrograd, will speak in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 8 o'clock. He will be given an informal dinner by the Governing Board of the Union, and will be introduced at the lecture by Professor R. H. Lord...
...Brasol is a keen student of the science of government and has spent much of his time in extensive research in the field of Socialism. In addition to several visits to various continental countries to examine there at close range the socialistic tendencies, he has delved deep into the theories of Karl Marx and his associates and satisfied himself of their fallacy. Mr. Brasol, however, should not be regarded only as a scholar, for he has spent most of his life in the Russian bureaucracy, where he was enabled to learn at first hand the workings of an imperialistic government...
...Brasol has written several books on Russia in which he has discussed the different phases of the recent upheavals of society in his native land. Perhaps the best known of his works is "The Balance Sheet of Sovietism" wherein he summarizes the actual achievements of the Bolshevist rule and offsets them against its failures. His other more recent books are "Socialism vs. Civilization" and "The World at the Cross Roads...
During the early years of his life Mr. Brasol was a close student of political economy and finance, and became greatly interested in the theory and history of Socialism, making special visits to Belgium, France, and Germany in order to study the scientific movements in these countries at close range. He wrote a number of articles on economic subjects, and in 1905 a treatise on the labor situation in Australia. When only nineteen, while a student at the University of Petrograd, he was elected vice-president of the Society for the Study of Political Economy...