UNION MEMBERS TO HEAR MR. BRASOL

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 '06.

The lecture will be open only to members of the Union, but members may obtain from the office of the Graduate Manager before 5 o'clock this afternoon guest cards admitting their friends who are not eligible to membership in the Union.

Mr. 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. As a lawyer in the Department of Justice and as municipal attorney in many other Russian cities in addition to Petrograd, he has come into intimate contact with the old regime. This experience, coupled with his extensive study of Socialism, has made him an authority on past and present Russian governments.

Mr. 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".