Since his escape from Russia in 1920, at the age of twenty-seven, Boris Sokoloff has been an eminent cancer scholar and has written many books, both scientific and non-scientific. Now, in The White Nights, he returns to the Russia of his boyhood and early manhood, to memories of the first World War and the Russian revolutions of 1917. The ground has been well worked over by other Russian émigrés, but Sokoloff’s memories are fresh, animated by a virile, attractive personality, infused with intelligence, and pleasantly readable.
Dr. Sokoloff was, during the February Revolution, at the front in charge of a medical unit. He was in St. Petersburg when the Bolsheviks overthrew the democratic government and destroyed the Constituent Assembly to which Sokoloff had been elected. He was involved in a plot to assassinate Lenin just before the October Revolution, helped to edit a
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