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)
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