Киев, Дух і Літера, 2001. – 240 с. ISBN 966-72-73-12-1 Вадим Скуратовский Проблема авторства "Протоколов сионских мудрецов" Summary The Protocols of the Zion Wise Men is a text that has in this century constantly provoked and will further provoke the collective myth of an extremely reactionary nature. The discussions are of a humanistic nature and still remain quite contraversal. This essay first of all consecrates on the problem of the debate on the authorship of this text. Unfortunately the problem is still exceedingly confused even amongst august writers and it is still being debated. Of course this merely strengthens the negative nature that The Protocols has had on the collective consciousness; the effect that The Protocols contribute to the intense cause by these fantastic ‘Zion Wise Men’. Of those writers considered to possible contenders of the authorship since they share the argumentative style and mysticism of the above is the little known Russian Matvey Golovinski (? - 1920). However, in many similar styles of writing the authenticity of Golovinski cannot be verified and conflicts with what we know about his life. The author of the proposed book, due to the ambiguity, prefers to detach himself from any attempt at a of solely biographic analysis of the hypothesis connected with Golovinski as the possible author of The Protocols of the Zion Wise Men. Instead, he proposes the question concerning The Protocols on the grounds of this hypothesis solely to the analysis of the text itself, most numerous textual and other parallels between The Protocols and the writings of M.V. Golovinski, known for the researcher, and published in Russia in the period between 1900 and 1910-s (including, those published under a characteristic pen name ‘Doctor Faust’). The creative production of ‘Doctor Faustus’ was a digest of belles-lettres and autobiographical prose known under the titles of From the Writer’s Notebook (Moscow, 1910), then the propagandistic The Black Book of German Atrocities (St.-Petersburg, 1914), a booklet An Experience of Criticism of Bourgeois Morality (Moscow, 1919). All of Golovinski’s writings are full of the motives, images, stylistic technique, etc. that directly associate with both the semantic and narrative-and-rhetorical structure of The Protocols of the Zion Wise Men. The Golovinski’s writings on their conception are remarkable for their ideological diversity, with an occasional being complete with the author’s entire unscrupulousness. The novel From the Writer’s Notebook gives a predominantly fair liberal view on the surrounding reality, both in Russia and the rest of the world. An Experience of Criticism of Bourgeois Morality, written soon afterwards already subjects reality to intense criticism in terms of the left-radical-anarchist meaning. The Black Book of the German Atrocities though is also quite ordinary, but has some rather aggressive writings with regards to the nationalistic and chauvinistic nature of official Russian phobia towards everything German before the WWI. 2   However, with regard to the diversity of the author’s view on the world, all the literature of Golovinski is remarkable for the constant and most intense interest in all these important topics of modern civilisation, and, first of all for the author’s determination to collect and generalise all the major shortcomings of that civilisation. In this respect it is especially characteristic the story of A Restless neighbour and the imaginative parable The Vision, that though generalise hardly give a complete history of mankind from antiquity to the hypothetical future. The mistakes, defects and oversights of this experience, both stylistically and semantically from their most obvious images associate with the image of civilisation in crisis in The Protocols of the Zion Wise Men. But while Jews and their ‘wise men’ are directly named in The Protocols as the party responsible for this crisis, in The Vision certain ethnically undesignated “peoples of the East” do their evil business. The prose by Golovinski on a larger scale most carefully avoid any topic concerning Jews. Even the slightest mention of them. But the only specifc and presentation in prose of some chronic diseases of the civilisation quite often attain the most direct coincidence with numerous references in The Protocols. It may be assumed, that Golovinski as a writer either continuously quotes those circumstances (which is hardly possible) or, more likely, he was the author, and composed them in the literary manner inherent to him. The large number of such coincidences, mostly differ in their character and contents, necessarily conclude that of the books by Golovinski, ‘Doctor Faustus’, and The Protocols of the Zion Wise Men were written by one and the same hand, the hand of V.A. Golovinski. In this connection the author also traces the incidents and other examples in Russian literature from previous century of special genre of the philosophical and historico-sophical newspaper satire, unique in relation to the entire western civilisation. That satire by its genre and other features obviously corresponds to the central object of scepticism of the ‘Zion wise men’ of The Protocols. 3   The Protocols of the Zion Wise Men also include a considerable number of diverse reminiscences and even obvious borrowings from the novels by Dostoevski (first of all, from The Evil spirits and The Karamazovs Brothers In the proposed study all these borrowings are amassed and commented on in addition to the manner peculiar for the author of The Protocols of inconsiderate literary plagiarism, ‘the manner’ previously commented upon by objective researchers.   At the same time the author of the present book regards, that the weighty presence of Dostoevski as a novelist in The Protocols of the Zion Wise Men is certainly an indication of the known closeness between him and Vasily Golovinski, who was similarly to Dostoevski a former ‘petrashevitz’, and like the latter once ascended the fatal scaffold. ‘Petrashevitz’ Vasily Golovinski was the father of the journalist Matvey Golovinski who more than adequately scooped from Dostoevski’s novels the images and situations necessary to characterise certain current social and moral crises. Thus, the ‘presence’ of Dostoevski in The Protocols of the Zion Wise Men is an additional sign in favour of Matvey Golovinski’s authorship. But, certainly, for the benefit of Golovinski the texts themselves indicate first of all the authorship of the latter, the texts that constantly employ the motives and means so inherent in The Protocols of the Zion Wise Men. All relevant and convincing correspondences are collected by the author in the proposed book. Оглавление Литература   www.pseudology.org