Владимир Бехтерев – Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin

posted here:

М. В. Ломоносова, М. Б. Буланова, “В.М. БЕХТЕРЕВ И П.А. СОРОКИН: НАУЧНЫЙ СОЮЗ ВО ИМЯ СОЦИОЛОГИИ” (M. V. Lomonosova and M.B. Bulanova, “V.M. Bekhterev i P.A. Sorokin: Nauchnyy Soyuz vo Imya Sotsiologii’ [V. M. Bekhterev and P. A. Sorokin: Scientific Union in the Name of Sociology]”

The Russian original is posted as both as a PDF and Word document.

The English translation (Word document above) is by Roger W. Smith.

— posted by Roger W. Smith

July 2024

A most interesting article has been posted on line and brought to my attention by its author:

“What benefit does Russia derive from this Institute?” Tsar Nicholas II on the Psycho-Neurological Institute: The last Emperor of Russia and Vladimir Bekhterev’s Psycho-Neurological Institute revolutionaries

by Federico Soldani

29th Oct 2021

https://psypolitics.org/2021/10/29/what-benefit-does-russia-derive-from-this-institute-tsar-nicholas-ii-on-the-psycho-neurological-institute-2021/

Sorokin was a student at the Psycho-Neurological Institute.

As Soldani notes: “The Institute offered medical training of the highest order, but its students’ revolutionary tendencies were becoming a concern for the government. In 1912, the mayor of Saint Petersburg had reported on political activity among the capital’s students. In margin of the section on the Psycho-Neurological Institute, Tsar Nicholas II had written, “What benefit does Russia derive from this Institute? I wish to have a well-founded answer”. In the spring of 1914 the minister of public education presented an additional report on the anti-governmental attitudes of Bekhterev’s students and recommended the Institute’s closure.”