Pitirim Sorokin, “Changes in Russia’s Intelligentsia”

 

Sorokin, ‘Changes in Russia’s Intelligentsia’ – NY Evening Post 12-18-1923

 

Posted here,  above, is my transcription of the following article:

Changes in Russia’s Intelligentsia

Former Idealistic Views Concerning Russian People Profoundly Modified by Revolution

By Pitirim Sorokin

(Translated, with some condensation, by David A. Modell from the Dni,* Russian-language daily in Berlin.)

New York Evening Post

December 18, 1923

pg. 8

 

– posted by Roger W. Smith

     August 2021

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