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...Brasol, noted authority on past and present Russian governments, will speak at 8 o'clock tomorrow night in the Living Room of the Union. He will take as his topic the changes that took place in Russia after 1917 and will discuss their effects on the nation as a whole. He will explain in particular the struggle between Communism and Capitalism and will show in what ways the Bolshevist regime has failed in its purpose...
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...
...Brasol, former District Attorney of Petrograd, will speak on the present plight of soviet Russia at 8 o'clock next Tuesday evening in the Living Room of the Union. He will discuss in particular the changes that his native country has undergone in the course of the last six years...
...Brasol was born in the Government of Poltava, Russia, of Russian parents. After his graduation in 1908 from the University of Petrograd with the degree of Bachelor of Law, he immediately entered the Department of Justice of the Russian Government, and in 1910 was made Assistant District Attorney at Petrograd. He served in this capacity and subsequently as District Attorney in various other Russian cities...
...outbreak of the Great War Mr. Brasol enlisted in the Russian Guards as a volunteer with the rank of Second Lieutenant, and fought in the successful campaign against the Austro-German armies in Galicia. After a long period of arduous fighting, in which his health suffered severely, he was appointed Military Prosecuting Attorney in charge of the trial of General Souschomlimor, former Russian Minister. At the conclusion of this trial, at which the General was convicted of treason and sentenced to imprisonment for life, Lieutenant Brasol was sent by the Russian Government to England. He remained there nine weeks...