The statue is at Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University. The photos are by Professor Natalia S. Sergieva.
— posted by Roger.Smith
December 2026
Category: miscellaneous
Zyuzev arrested
the Peter and Paul Fortress
The Peter and Paul Fortress (Петропавловская крепость [Petropavlovskaya krepost’]) in Saint Petersburg served as a prison for political criminals. Sorokin was imprisoned there.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
September 2025
Harrison Salisbury on Sorokin
The above excerpt is from Harrison E. Salisbury, A Journey For Our Times: A Memoir (New York: Harper & Row, 1983).
Harrison E. Salisbury (1908-1993) was an American journalist and the first regular New York Times correspondent in Moscow after World War II.
— posted by Roger W. Smith, August 2025
Bierstedt on Sorokin
Robert Bierstedt, ‘The Logico-Meaningful Method of Sorokin’ (rev of Dynamics); Sorokin ‘Rejoinder’
Bierstedt obit – NY TImes 9-17-1988
Posted here: an excerpt from the sociologist Robert Bierstedt’s Power and Progress: Essays on Sociological Theory (McGraw-Hill, 1974).
Robert Bierstedt (1913–1998) was a student of Sorokin who became a leading American sociologist. He headed the department of sociology at City College of New York and at New York University before becoming a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. He was a graduate student at Harvard University during the 1930s.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
July 2024
Sorokin, Nabokov II
correspondence re Vladimir Nabokov admission
The above PDF contains correspondence between Sorokin and Nicolas Nabokov (cousin of the writer Vladimir Nabokov) concerning Vladimir Nabokov’s desire to emigrate to the United States.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
March 2025
See also my post:
Sorokin and Kondratiev (Сорокин И Кондратьев)
Yuri Doykov memo re Sorokin and Kondratiev RUSSIAN
Yuri Doykov memo re Sorokin and Kondratiev ENGLISH
Posted here (Word documents above), in the original Russian and English translation (by Roger W. Smith): the text of a letter received by the Russian scholar Yuri Doykov. It concerns the relationship between Sorokin and his friend , the economist Nikolai Kondratiev (1892-1938).
— posted by Roger W Smith
February 2025
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SEE ALSO
my post
Why Is It Not Mentioned?
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
university acquires Sorokin collection
‘University acquires Sorokin collection’ – Leader-Post (Regina, Canada) 2-8-1968
University acquires Sorokin collection – Leader-Post (Regina Canada) 2-8-1968
Posted here: “University acquires Sorokin collection,” Leader-Post (Regina, Canada), February 8, 1968
Sorokin died on February 10, 1968 in Winchester, Massachusetts.
— posted by Roger W Smith
October 2024
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin 