photo, Faculty of Law of the Imperial St. Petersburg University (ca. 1914)

 

Фото 1. Студенты и преподаватели юридического факультета Императорского Санкт-Петербургского университета (ориентировочно 1913 – 1914 гг.). Стоят во втором ряду: третий справа – Я. М. Захер, шестой справа – П.А. Сорокин; остальные лица пока не установлены. Личный архив проф. А.В. Гордона, г. Москва

Photo 1. Students and teachers of the Faculty of Law of the Imperial St. Petersburg University (approximately 1913-1914). Standing in the second row: third from the right – Y.M. Zacher, sixth from the right – P.A. Sorokin; The rest of the persons have not yet been identified. Personal archive of Prof. A.V. Gordon, Moscow

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Яков Михайлович Захер (Yakov Mikhailovich Sacher) (1893-1963) was a Soviet historian. He graduated from Imperial Petrograd University in 1915.

Sacher was author of several works on the French Revolution.

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See

Кутузова, А. А. and Русанова, В. С.

ПИТИРИМ АЛЕКСАНДРОВИЧ СОРОКИН И ЯКОВ МИХАЙЛОВИЧ ЗАХЕР: УНИВЕРСИТЕТСКИЕ ГОДЫ ЖИЗНИ (Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin and Yakov Mikhailovich Zakher: University Years of Life)

IN

Ученые записки Казанского университета. Серия (Proceedings of Kazan University. Humanities Series), Vol. 160 Issue 3, pp. 772-785

Kutuzova and Rusanova, ‘P. A. Sorokin and Y. M. Zacher’

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

      September 2026

a letter from Sergei P. Sorokin

 

Sergei Sorokin to Myra Fournier

 

Attached above as a Word document: a letter from Sergei P. Sorokin.

Discussing his youth in Winchester.

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

      July 2026

Sergei P. Sorokin (1933-2026)

 

https://soc.spbu.ru/2419-ushel-iz-zhizni-sergej-pitirimovich-sorokin-1933-2026.html

https://www.bnkomi.ru/data/news/200480/

 

downloadable Word document:

Sergei Sorokkin obits

 

This obituary was written by Marina V. Lomonosova, Associate Professor, Department of the Theory and History of Sociology, Saint Petersburg State University.

 

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Sorokin family in Winchester. Sergei is between his mother (on Sergei’s left) and father Pitirim (on his right).

Peter (L) and Sergei (R) Sorokin

 

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

     July 4, 2026

 

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See also:

Sergei P. Sorokin, “Life with Pitirim Sorokin: A Younger Son’s Perspective”

https://pitirimsorokin.com/2017/12/06/sergei-p-sorokin-life-with-pitirim-sorokin-a-younger-sons-perspective/

Sorokin was on the right side on all causes

 

advertisement published in the New York Ace Defender, February  4, 1956

 

The rally was in the aftermath of the lynching of a 14 year old African-American boy,  Emmett Louis Till, in Mississippi in 1955. and the acquittal of two whjte men in a trial that ended ln September 1955. The crome spurred the beginnings of the civil rights  movement.

 

posted by Roger W. Smith

      May 2026

Sorokin statue

 

The statue is at Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University.  The photos are by Professor Natalia S. Sergieva.

 

 

 

posted by Roger.Smith

      December 2026

Sorokin-Brinton exchange

 

Posted here are Russian translations of:

Crane Brinton. “Socio-Astrology” (The Southern Review 3.2, Fall 1937)

and

Sorokin’s rejoinder, “Histrionics” (The Southern Review 3.3, Winter 1938).

Brinton’s article was a review-essay of the first three volumes of Sorokin’s Social and Cultural Dynamics (The American Book Company, 1937).

Clarence Crane Brinton (1898-1968) was an American historian. He was the McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at his alma mater, Harvard University.

The translations, published in Naslsedie  No. 1 (26) (2025). are by Natalia S. Sergieva and Roger W. Smith.

– posted by Roger W. Smith

     September 2025

 

Brinton-Sorokin (trans Sergieva, Smith)

Crane Brinton, ‘Socio-Astrology’

‘Historionics’ (Sorokin reply to Crane Brinton)

nasledie_26-1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zyuzev arrested

 

Zyuzev

Zyuzev ENGLISH

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

     September 2025

 

 

 

Sorokin re Churchill, U.S.-Anglo alliance

 

‘Parley Speakers Criticize Views of Churchill and Republicans’ – NY Herald

Tribune 9-11-1943‘Parley Speakers Criticize Views of Churchill and Republicans’ – NY Herald Tribune 9-11-1943

Sorokin speaks at Atlanta conference – NY Herald Tribune 9-11-1943

Sorokin speaks at annual conference – Christian Science Monitor 9-11-1943

peace conditions enumerated by Sorokin – Christian Sci Monitor 9-11-1943

Chicago Daily Tribune, September 11, 1943

re Anglo-U.S. alliance – Daily News 9-11-1943

Daily News (nY), September 11, 1943

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith     

     September 2025

 

 

 

the Peter and Paul Fortress

 

view of Peter and Paul Fortress (photo courtesy Marina Lomonosova)

 

The Peter and Paul Fortress (Петропавловская крепость [Petropavlovskaya  krepost’]) in Saint Petersburg served as a prison for political criminals. Sorokin was imprisoned there.

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith
      September 2025

 

 

Harrison Salisbury on Sorokin

 

Salisbury

 

The above excerpt is from Harrison E. Salisbury, A Journey For Our Times: A Memoir (New York: Harper & Row, 1983).

Harrison E. Salisbury (1908-1993) was an American journalist and the first regular New York Times correspondent in Moscow after World War II.

 

posted by Roger W. Smith, August 2025