Tag: Roger Smith

“Nikolai Zjuzev, the Komi philosopher in a labour camp”

 

‘I Fled Putin’s Russia for Canada’

‘Nikolai Zjuzev in a labour camp’

‘Why Zyuzev Received a Seven-Year Sentence’ RUSSIAN

‘Why Zyuzev Received a Seven-Year Sentence’ ENGLISH

 

Posted here:

Word documents, above.

“I fled Putin’s Russia for Canada. It opened my eyes.”

by Nikolay Zyuzev

Maclean’s

January 3, 2023

 

Nikolai Zjuzev, the Komi philosopher in a labour camp

by Vladimir Rozanskij

Asia Today

October 14, 2026

 

Экспедиция в тюрьму: за что философ Николай Зюзев получил семь лет

 Expedition to prison: why philosopher Nikolai Zyuzev received seven years  (English)

 

Nikolai Zjuzev, a Russian and Canadian citizen, is a renowned scholar of the legacy of Sorokin.

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

      October 2026

photo, Faculty of Law of the Imperial St. Petersburg University (ca. 1914)

 

Фото 1. Студенты и преподаватели юридического факультета Императорского Санкт-Петербургского университета (ориентировочно 1913 – 1914 гг.). Стоят во втором ряду: третий справа – Я. М. Захер, шестой справа – П.А. Сорокин; остальные лица пока не установлены. Личный архив проф. А.В. Гордона, г. Москва

Photo 1. Students and teachers of the Faculty of Law of the Imperial St. Petersburg University (approximately 1913-1914). Standing in the second row: third from the right – Y.M. Zacher, sixth from the right – P.A. Sorokin; The rest of the persons have not yet been identified. Personal archive of Prof. A.V. Gordon, Moscow

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Яков Михайлович Захер (Yakov Mikhailovich Sacher) (1893-1963) was a Soviet historian. He graduated from Imperial Petrograd University in 1915.

Sacher was author of several works on the French Revolution.

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See

Кутузова, А. А. and Русанова, В. С.

ПИТИРИМ АЛЕКСАНДРОВИЧ СОРОКИН И ЯКОВ МИХАЙЛОВИЧ ЗАХЕР: УНИВЕРСИТЕТСКИЕ ГОДЫ ЖИЗНИ (Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin and Yakov Mikhailovich Zakher: University Years of Life)

IN

Ученые записки Казанского университета. Серия (Proceedings of Kazan University. Humanities Series), Vol. 160 Issue 3, pp. 772-785

Kutuzova and Rusanova, ‘P. A. Sorokin and Y. M. Zacher’

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

      September 2026

a letter from Sergei P. Sorokin

 

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

Sergei P. Sorokin (1933-2026)

 

https://soc.spbu.ru/2419-ushel-iz-zhizni-sergej-pitirimovich-sorokin-1933-2026.html

https://www.bnkomi.ru/data/news/200480/

 

downloadable Word document:

Sergei Sorokkin obits

 

This obituary was written by Marina V. Lomonosova, Associate Professor, Department of the Theory and History of Sociology, Saint Petersburg State University.

 

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Sorokin family in Winchester. Sergei is between his mother (on Sergei’s left) and father Pitirim (on his right).

Peter (L) and Sergei (R) Sorokin

 

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

     July 4, 2026

 

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See also:

Sergei P. Sorokin, “Life with Pitirim Sorokin: A Younger Son’s Perspective”

https://pitirimsorokin.com/2017/12/06/sergei-p-sorokin-life-with-pitirim-sorokin-a-younger-sons-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)

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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)

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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

Chicago Daily Tribune, September 11, 1943

re Anglo-U.S. alliance – Daily News 9-11-1943

Daily News (nY), September 11, 1943

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith     

     September 2025

 

 

 

the Peter and Paul Fortress

 

view of Peter and Paul Fortress (photo courtesy Marina Lomonosova)

 

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

 

Salisbury

 

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