I have always wanted to hear a recording of Sorokin lecturing and what his voice sounded like. I recall reading somewhere that his pronunciation in English was atrocious — it was something that, despite his linguistic skills, he never became proficient at.
Now, thanks to the Pitirim A. Sorokin Foundation, we have such a recording, available online at
This recording is from a Sorokin lecture entitled “The Mysterious Energy of Love” and is from an original tape that belonged to Sorokin. The recording is comprised of a fragment approximately ten minutes in length from the entire lecture, which was two and a half hours long.
The lecture was given in 1959 at an undisclosed university.
See transcript in my post
“The Mysterious Energy of Love”
— recorded by Roger W. Smith
January 2022
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin 