Boris Sokoloff (1889–1979) was a Russian Empire and later French politician, medical doctor, soldier, cancer researcher, and author.

Political career

After graduating from the University of St. Petersburg, Sokoloff helped draft the All-Russian Constitution that governed the

Russian Constituent Assembly The All Russian Constituent Assembly (Всероссийское Учредительное собрание, Vserossiyskoye Uchreditelnoye sobraniye) was a constituent assembly convened in Russia after the October Revolution of 1917. It met fo ...

, the legislative body that would ultimately be overthrown by the

All-Russian Central Executive Committee The All-Russian Central Executive Committee ( rus, Всероссийский Центральный Исполнительный Комитет, Vserossiysky Centralny Ispolnitelny Komitet, VTsIK) was the highest legislative, administrative and r ...

led by

Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 19 ...

. He was sentenced to death, but survived and escaped from Russia. In 1956, Sokoloff published ''The White Nights: Pages From a Russian Doctor's Notebook'', a memoir of his participation in the failed effort to stop the rise of the

Bolsheviks The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

in Russia.

Medical career

Sokoloff began his career as a doctor and medical researcher, publishing his first medical study at just seventeen. After escaping Russia, Sokoloff moved to Paris. At the invitation of the Rockefeller Institute, he relocated to the United States, where he worked at the

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK or MSKCC) is a cancer treatment and research institution in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital. MSKCC is one of 52 National Cancer Institute– ...

, the University of Washington Cancer Research Center, and the Cancer Research Laboratory at

Florida Southern College Florida Southern College (Florida Southern, Southern or FSC) is a private college in Lakeland, Florida. In 2019, the student population at FSC consisted of 3,073 students along with 130 full-time faculty members. The college offers 50 undergradu ...

References

External links

Boris Sokoloff on goodreads.com

Boris Sokoloff on WorldCat
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sokoloff, Boris 1893 births 1979 deaths Politicians of the Russian Empire Imperial Russian Army personnel White Russian emigrants to France French emigrants to the United States