Pitirim A. Sorokin’s Russia and the United States (E.P. Dutton and Company, 1944) is not discussed or mentioned anywhere — and is not included in the footnotes or bibliography — of Barry T. Johnston’s Pitirim A. Sorokin: An Intellectual Biography.
This is a serious omission.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
January 2025
inside flap, Russia and the United States
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