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’ – 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
President’s Report – U of Minnesota, 1924-1925
‘Research in Progress’ – U of Minnesota, 1924-1925
Sorokin taught at the University of Minnesota from 1924 to 1929. Posted here are:
President’s Report, University of Minnesota 1924-1925
Research in Progress, University of Minnesota. 1924-1925
detailing the writings and research activities of Sorokin, his collaborator Carle C. Zimmerman, and Sorokin’s wife, Helen Sorokin.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
August 2024
‘Social Mobility’ – Preface, etc
Posted here (PDF above):
Editor’s Introduction (by F. Stuart Chapin)
Sorokin’s Preface
Pitirim Sorokin, Social Mobility, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927
— posted by Roger W. Smith
June 2024
Herbert Hoover to Sorokin 2-2-1926
Posted here as a Word document: a letter from Herbert Hoover, then Secretary of Commerce, to Sorokin, dated February 2, 1926.
— posted by Roger W Smith
April 2024
dated December 4, 1918
English translation by Roger W. Smith and Natalia Sergieva
See Word documents above.
– posted by Roger W. Smith
March 2024
Faculty Profile (Fadiman) – Harvard Crimson 4-22-1941
Posted here (Word document above) is the following article about Sorokin:
“Faculty Profile”
The Harvard Crimson
April 22, 1941
–– posted by Roger W Smith
March 2023
On May 24, 2017, on a trip to Massachusetts, I made a stop in Winchester (a town near Cambridge), where Pitirim A. Sorokin, his wife Elena, and their sons lived. Both of Sorokin’s sons graduated from Winchester High School.
I know the area well, having grown up in Cambridge. My father grew up in nearby Arlington. A musician and piano teacher, he had many piano students in Winchester and was involved in musical productions there.
Sorokin and family resided at 8 Cliff Street in Winchester.
I was interested not only to see the residence of a world renowned scholar and writer, but also to see the house because it was famous for its grounds: a garden developed and maintained by Sorokin himself, for which he had won awards from horticultural societies and of which he was proud.
I drove up the block, which was on a steep ascent, using GPS to guide me. The GPS system advised me that I had arrived at my destination, 8 Cliff Street, on my left. I saw 6 Cliff Street, but where was number 8? Number 8 was shrouded and hidden by a profusion of flowering bushes. It reminded me of the Forest of Thorns in “Sleeping Beauty.”
‘Winchester Hillside Aglow with Azaleas’ – Boston Globe 5-23-1954
— posted by Roger W. Smith
February 2024
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Pitirim A. Sorokin residence, 8 Cliff St., Winchester, MA. Photographs by Roger W. Smith
Yuri Doykov, ‘Modern Thought of P. A. Sorokin’
posted here (PDF above)
Yuri Doykov
” ‘Modern Thought of P. A. Sorokin”
Arkhangelsk, 1995
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin 