Students and teachers of the Jurisprudence Faculty of the Imperial Saint-Petersburg University, around 1913-1914. Standing in second row: sixth from right: P. A. Sorokin.
personal archive of Prof. A.V. Gordon, Moscow
— posted by Roger W. Smith; courtesy Юрий Дойков (Yuri Doykov)
tributes to Sorokin – Indian Journal of Social Research, April 1968
Posted here (PDF file above) is a series of post mortem tributes to Pitirim A. Sorokin that were published in in 1968 as a special supplement to the Indian Journal of Social Research, Volume IX, Number 1 (April 1968), pp. i-xvi
“In Memoriam: Pitirm Alexanderovich Sorokin: January 21, 1889-Feburary 10, 1968,” pp. i-iii
“Reminiscences of Sorokin,” by Charles P. Loomis, pp. iv-viii (written by Professor Loomis in 1959 and published posthumously)
TRIBUTES:
by Carle C. Zimmerman, pp. ix-xii
by Kenneth V. Lottich, pp. xii-xiii
The New York Times (reprinted from an anonymous obituary, condensed and slightly edited), pp. xiii-xiv
by Kewal Motwani, pp. xiv-xv
by Arnold J. Toynbee, pg. xvi
by Michael V. Belok, pg. xvi
by Santosh K. Nandy, pg. xvi
The editor of the journal, responsible for assembling the supplement, was G. C. Hallen, Professor of Sociology at J. V. College, Baraut (Meerut), India
— posted by Roger W. Smith
August 2019
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Timasheff, ‘Pitirim A. Sorokin (1889-1968)’ – The Russian Review
Posted here (above) as a downloadable PDF document is an obituary of Pitirim A. Sorokin by his friend and fellow sociologist N. S. Timasheff:
“Pitirim A. Sorokin (1889-1968),” The Russian Review, vol. 27, no. 3 (July 1968), pp. 379-381.
A Wikipedia entry about Timasheff follows; it is posted here for informational purposes.
— Roger W. Smith
December 2017
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Nicholas Sergeyevitch Timasheff (Russian: Николай Сергеевич Тимашев; 1886-1970) was a Russian sociologist, professor of jurisprudence and writer.
Timasheff “came from an old family of Russian nobility”; his father was Minister of Trade and Industry under Nicholas II. In St. Petersburg, where he was born, he attended a classical high school; he went on to attend the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, the University of Strasbourg, and the Saint Petersburg State University (MA 1910, LLD 1914). At the latter university, he met the Polish-Russian jurist Leon Petrazycki, who was a significant influence on him throughout his life. Two years later he began teaching sociological jurisprudence at the University of Petrograd. He emigrated to the United States following an alleged involvement with the Tagantsev Conspiracy in 1920. He took up a similar position at Fordham University, and was one of the original developers of the discipline of sociology of law. [Note: the sociology of law and criminology was an early area of academic specialization for Sorokin.]
Timasheff was the author of various works, including The Great Retreat: The Growth and Decline of Communism in Russia (1946), in which he argued that the Bolsheviks made a conscious retreat from socialist values during the 1930’s, instead returning to traditional ones like patriotism and the family. Historian Terry Martin considers this a misnomer, because “in the political and economic spheres, the period after 1933 marked a consolidation, rather than a repudiation, of the most important goals of Stalin’s socialist offensive: forced industrialization, collectivization, nationalization, abolition of the market, political dictatorship.”
Carle C. Zimmerman, ‘In Memoriam; Pitirim Alexanderovich Sorokin’
The memorial tribute to the Russian-American sociologist and social philosopher Pitirim A. Sorokin (1889-1968) which is posted above as a downloadable PDF file appeared in Carle C. Zimmerman, Sorokin: The World’s Greatest Sociologist: His Life and Ideas on Social Time and Change. The tribute provides a brief biography of Sorokin.
Carle C. Zimmerman was a lifelong friend and fellow academic of Sorokin.
Carle C. Zimmerman, “In Memoriam: Pitirim Aleksanderovich Sorokin,” in Sorokin: The World’s Greatest Sociologist: His Life and Ideas on Social Time and Change (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada: University of Saskatchewan, 1968), pg. xiii-xiv
— Roger W. Smith
August 2017
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin 