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
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Sergei P. Sorokin (1933-2026)
https://soc.spbu.ru/2419-ushel-iz-zhizni-sergej-pitirimovich-sorokin-1933-2026.html
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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”
Sorokin was on the right side on all causes
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
Sorokin statue
The statue is at Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University. The photos are by Professor Natalia S. Sergieva.
— posted by Roger.Smith
December 2026
Sorokin-Brinton exchange
Posted here are Russian translations of:
Crane Brinton. “Socio-Astrology” (The Southern Review 3.2, Fall 1937)
and
Sorokin’s rejoinder, “Histrionics” (The Southern Review 3.3, Winter 1938).
Brinton’s article was a review-essay of the first three volumes of Sorokin’s Social and Cultural Dynamics (The American Book Company, 1937).
Clarence Crane Brinton (1898-1968) was an American historian. He was the McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at his alma mater, Harvard University.
The translations, published in Naslsedie No. 1 (26) (2025). are by Natalia S. Sergieva and Roger W. Smith.
–– posted by Roger W. Smith
September 2025
Brinton-Sorokin (trans Sergieva, Smith)
Crane Brinton, ‘Socio-Astrology’
‘Historionics’ (Sorokin reply to Crane Brinton)
Sorokin re Churchill, U.S.-Anglo alliance
‘Parley Speakers Criticize Views of Churchill and Republicans’ – NY Herald
Tribune 9-11-1943‘Parley Speakers Criticize Views of Churchill and Republicans’ – NY Herald Tribune 9-11-1943
Sorokin speaks at Atlanta conference – NY Herald Tribune 9-11-1943
Sorokin speaks at annual conference – Christian Science Monitor 9-11-1943
peace conditions enumerated by Sorokin – Christian Sci Monitor 9-11-1943
re Anglo-U.S. alliance – Daily News 9-11-1943
— posted by Roger W. Smith
September 2025
the Peter and Paul Fortress
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
Harrison Salisbury on Sorokin
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
Bierstedt on Sorokin
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
Pitirim Sorokin, notes on Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin
Sorokin notes on Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin (MG449_Sorokin_Box3_I_E_14d)
notes on Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin
Posted here:
Pitirim Sorokin
notes on Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin
P.A. Sorokin collection; Archives & Special Collections, University of Saskatchewan
transcription and editing by Roger W. Smith and Natalia Sergieva
The manuscript (Sorokin’s notes) is undated, but internal evidence (a reference to Sorokin’s autobiography, which was published in 1963) indicates that it was written late in Sorokin’s life.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
May 2025
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin 