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The Truth About The Protocols: A Literary Forgery
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28 pages, Paperback
First published September 10, 2010
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February 19, 2026
I learned of this book while searching for a different book: The Truth about the Protocols of Zion, by Gregory Bostunich. This book, apparently, does not exist. This nonexistent book was highly touted in the book The Secret World Government or The Hidden Hand: The Unrevealed in History, by Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich. I am not at all surprised that the book does not exist, as Spiridovich's book is full of misinformation. Maybe he meant Gregory Bostunitsch's book Judischer Imperialismus? Since Bostunitsch's book apparently only exists in German, I won’t be reading that one.
This current book The Truth About the Protocols is a short series of articles from The Times (I assume the London-based newspaper is meant). The online version I read did not identify the author of these articles but apparently it was Philip Graves, who is described as a journalist in the introduction to a translation of Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu that I am currently reading. Although the Graves articles are historically important as an early exposé of the Protocols, they are not the earliest. That distinction may go to Lucien Wolf in his 1920 book The Jewish Bogey and the Forged Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
Most of the information in this short book is available elsewhere, but I did find this statistic interesting: Fully 50 paragraphs in the Protocols are simply paraphrases of passages in the Dialogues [in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu], which Graves refers to as the Geneva dialogues. The book is also interesting for citing more parallels between the Dialogues and the Protocols that I have seen elsewhere.
Graves writes presciently that "There can be little doubt that the forgery was perpetrated by some member of the Russian Secret Police." In fact, the Protocols almost certainly were forged by Matvei Golovinski, a Russian secret police agent, maybe as early as 1897 according to the introduction to Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu that I mentioned earlier in this review.
If you have a bit of time to spare and are interested in the history of the Protocols, this isn’t a bad read.
This current book The Truth About the Protocols is a short series of articles from The Times (I assume the London-based newspaper is meant). The online version I read did not identify the author of these articles but apparently it was Philip Graves, who is described as a journalist in the introduction to a translation of Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu that I am currently reading. Although the Graves articles are historically important as an early exposé of the Protocols, they are not the earliest. That distinction may go to Lucien Wolf in his 1920 book The Jewish Bogey and the Forged Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
Most of the information in this short book is available elsewhere, but I did find this statistic interesting: Fully 50 paragraphs in the Protocols are simply paraphrases of passages in the Dialogues [in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu], which Graves refers to as the Geneva dialogues. The book is also interesting for citing more parallels between the Dialogues and the Protocols that I have seen elsewhere.
Graves writes presciently that "There can be little doubt that the forgery was perpetrated by some member of the Russian Secret Police." In fact, the Protocols almost certainly were forged by Matvei Golovinski, a Russian secret police agent, maybe as early as 1897 according to the introduction to Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu that I mentioned earlier in this review.
If you have a bit of time to spare and are interested in the history of the Protocols, this isn’t a bad read.
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