From the back cover of a subsequent book by Sorokin: Russia and the United States (1944). Note the original reception that The Crisis of Our Age received.
Note the text of the PDF (see below) is clear and readable.
back cover copy, Russia and the United States
— posted by Roger W. Smith
February 2025
Pitirim A. Sorokin’s Russia and the United States (E.P. Dutton and Company, 1944) is not discussed or mentioned anywhere — and is not included in the footnotes or bibliography — of Barry T. Johnston’s Pitirim A. Sorokin: An Intellectual Biography.
This is a serious omission.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
January 2025
inside flap, Russia and the United States
Posted here (Word document above):
“The hills and the cliffs around the house inspired me: The Sorokins on Cliff Street”
presenter: Roger W. Smith
Winchester Historical Society, Winchester, MA
November 13, 2024
‘Moral Values Lost in Anti-Red Fight, Says Prof. Sorokin’ – Boston Globe 11-8-1952
‘Moral Values Lost in Anti-Red Fight, Says Prof. Sorokin’- Boston Globe 11-8-1952
Posted here:
Moral Values Lost in Anti-Red Fight, Says Prof. Sorokin, The Boston Globe, November 8, 1952, pg. 3
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Addendum:
For what it is worth, I took a philosophy course with Professor Henry Aiken, who is named in the article.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
November 2024
‘Sorokin Urges Ban on Communists’ – Boston Globe 12-21-1930
‘Sorokin Urges Ban On Communists’ – Boston Globe 12-21-1930
Posted here:
“Prof Sorokin Urges Ban on Communists: Says Soviet Aims To End Western Social System,” The Boston Globe, December 21, 1930, pg. A14
— posted by Roger W, Smith
November 2024
‘University acquires Sorokin collection’ – Leader-Post (Regina, Canada) 2-8-1968
University acquires Sorokin collection – Leader-Post (Regina Canada) 2-8-1968
Posted here: “University acquires Sorokin collection,” Leader-Post (Regina, Canada), February 8, 1968
Sorokin died on February 10, 1968 in Winchester, Massachusetts.
— posted by Roger W Smith
October 2024
letter to editor – NY Times 8-3-1955
The above Word document comprises the text of a letter to editor about the bombing of Hiroshima that was published in The New York Times of August 3, 1955 to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the booming.
The signers were Clarence E. Pickett, Bishop W. Appleton Lawrence, Lewis Mumford, Pitirim A. Sorokin, W. Harold Row, A. Philip Randolph, Orie O. Miller, Howard Thurman, Henry J. Cadbury, A. J. Muste, A. H. Bainton, and Rabbi Isidor B. Hoffman.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
November 2024
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See also my post:
‘Pitirm A. Sorokin’ – Harvard Univesity Gazette 12-28-1968
Posted here (PDF above):
“Pitirim A. Sorokin”
Harvard University Gazette
December 28, 1968
— posted by Roger W. Smith
October 2024
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin 