Sorokin, ‘Was Lenin a Failure’ – Forum 1924
Posted here (above) as a downloadable PDF file is an article by the Russian-American sociologist and social philosopher Pitirim A. Sorokin.
The article was written shortly after Sorokin was banished from Russia and exiled by the Bolshevik regime.
Pitirim Sorokin, “Was Lenin a Failure?–A Debate: I–Lenin the Destroyer,” Forum, vol. LXXI, no. 4 (April 1924)
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September 2017
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