‘Nikolai Zjuzev in a labour camp’
Posted here:
Word document, above.
Nikolai Zjuzev, the Komi philosopher in a labour camp
by Vladimir Rozanskij
Asia Today
October 14, 2026
— posted by Roger W. Smith
October 15. 2026
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:
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).
— 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”
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)
Zyuzev arrested
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
re Anglo-U.S. alliance – Daily News 9-11-1943
— posted by Roger W. Smith
September 2025
the Peter and Paul Fortress
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
