Yuri Doykov, ‘Why Was He Silent’
Yuri Doykov, ‘Why Was He Silent’ RUSSIAN
Yuri Doykov, ‘Why Was He Silent’ ENGLISH
posted here:
Юрий Дойков, Почему молчал Питирим Сорокин?; От Лубянки до Гарварда (1918-1930) [Yuri Doykov, Why was he silent?; Pitirim Sorokin? From the Lubyanka to Harvard (1918-1930)]
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 2o24
‘Social Mobility’ – Preface, etc
Posted here (PDF above):
Editor’s Introduction (by F. Stuart Chapin)
Sorokin’s Preface
Pitirim Sorokin, Social Mobility, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927
— posted by Roger W. Smith
June 2024
Kordun, ‘The Sociology of Revolution of Pitirim Sorokin’
Kordun, ‘The Sociology of Revolution of Pitirim Sorokin’ RUSSIAN
Kordun, ‘The Sociology of Revolution of Pitirim Sorokin’ ENGLSH
Posted here, in the original Russian and English translation:
В.А. КОРДУН, «СОЦИОЛОГИЯ РЕВОЛЮЦИИ» ПИТИРИМА СОРОКИНА: НАУЧНЫЙ ТРУД И АВТОР: СУДЬБА В ЭМИГРАЦИИ (V. A. Kordun, “The Sociology of Revolution” of Pitirim Sorokin: Scholarship and the Author: His Destiny as an Emigrant)
translation by Roger W. Smith and Natalia S. Sergieva
Herbert Hoover to Sorokin 2-2-1926
Posted here as a Word document: a letter from Herbert Hoover, then Secretary of Commerce, to Sorokin, dated February 2, 1926.
— posted by Roger W Smith
April 2024
review of Sociological Theories of Today – Sociological Bulletin, March 1967
posted here (PDF above)
review of Sociological Theories of Today
By Pitirim A. Sorokin
reviewed by D. Narain
Sociological Bulletin
Volume 16, Number 1 (March 1967)
pp. 95-100
— posted by Roger W. Smith
April 2024
Jean Floud review of ‘Fads and Foibles in Modern Sociology’
posted here (PDF above)
review of Fads and Foibles in Modern Sociology and Related Sciences
By Pitirim A. Sorokin
reviewed by Jean Floud
British Journal of Educational Studies
Volume VI, Number 1 (November 1957)
pp. 84-86
Jean Esther Floud (1915-2013) was a prominent sociologist. She was the Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, from 1972 to 1983.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
April 2024
dated December 4, 1918
English translation by Roger W. Smith and Natalia Sergieva
See Word documents above.
– posted by Roger W. Smith
March 2024
Most of these have already been posted by me elsewhere.
— Roger W. Smith
Faculty Profile (Fadiman) – Harvard Crimson 4-22-1941
Posted here (Word document above) is the following article about Sorokin:
“Faculty Profile”
The Harvard Crimson
April 22, 1941
–– posted by Roger W Smith
March 2023
review of Leaves from a Russian Diary – Chicago Evening Post 1-30-1925
Posted here:
“A Sociologist’s Political Memories”
review of Sorokin, Leaves from a Russian Diary
reviewed by Lawrence Martin
The Chicago Evening Post Literary Review
January 30, 1925
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a “footnote”
I read Sorokin’s Leaves years ago, after “discovering” him. It was the second Sorokin book I read (after The Crisis of Our Age). It was unforgettable; it made a very strong impression of me.
This review conveys the excitement that the book conveyed. And it hints at some of its weaknesses, which I would say are those of a lot of good storytellers: a tendency at times to exaggeration and of, at times, “polishing the apple,” which is to say “prettying” incidents for effect.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
February 2024
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin 