Sergei Sorokin to Myra Fournier
Attached above as a Word document: a letter from Sergei P. Sorokin.
Discussing his youth in Winchester.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
July 2026
Sergei Sorokin to Myra Fournier
Attached above as a Word document: a letter from Sergei P. Sorokin.
Discussing his youth in Winchester.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
July 2026
https://soc.spbu.ru/2419-ushel-iz-zhizni-sergej-pitirimovich-sorokin-1933-2026.html
https://www.bnkomi.ru/data/news/200480/
downloadable Word document:



— posted by Roger W. Smith
July 4, 2026
See also:
Sergei P. Sorokin, “Life with Pitirim Sorokin: A Younger Son’s Perspective”
advertisement published in the New York Ace Defender, February 4, 1956


The rally was in the aftermath of the lynching of a 14 year old African-American boy, Emmett Louis Till, in Mississippi in 1955. and the acquittal of two whjte men in a trial that ended ln September 1955. The crome spurred the beginnings of the civil rights movement.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
May 2026
The statue is at Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University. The photos are by Professor Natalia S. Sergieva.


— posted by Roger.Smith
December 2026

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
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
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
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:
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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