“Professor Sorokine To Remain in U.S.”

Professor Sorokine To Remain in U.S.

The present Russian government has extended a formal invitation to Professor Pitirim Sorokine, who is a guest of President [Henry Noble] MacCracken at Vassar College at present, to return to that country and take up once more the editorship of the Russian Peasant Magazine, which he carried on before his condemnation.

Professor Sorokine says that he is not planning to accept this invitation because he believes that a faction would have him arrested if he refused to subscribe to their opinions. In addition he would be obliged to aid in the public instruction under the communist government, which would not be pleasant. He said Wednesday:

“If the imprisonment of Trotsky by the communists, announced today, is true, I believe that the present Russian government is doomed and that its fall will take place in a short time.”

— Poughkeepsie Eagle-News (Poughkeepsie, New York), January 17, 1924, pg. 6

— posted by Roger W. Smith

     September 2019

Author: Roger W. Smith

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