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Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, Emeritus, was imprisoned in Northern Russia in 1918, waiting to be executed for anti-Bolshevik activities when he learned that Lenin had personally intervened to save his life...

Author: By Gerald M. Rosberg, | Title: Pitirim A. Sorokin | 11/5/1966 | See Source »

...page article in Pravda, Lenin defended the former minister in Kerensky's Cabinet, and vouched for his revolutionary purity. Sorokin was immediately released, brought to Moscow, and offered a government position which he did not accept...

Author: By Gerald M. Rosberg, | Title: Pitirim A. Sorokin | 11/5/1966 | See Source »

...returned instead to the Sociology department he had founded at the University of Petrograd. Among the daily auditors in his classes, Sorokin says, were two spies from CHEKA (the new government's secret police) who reported his lectures as ideologically objectionable...

Author: By Gerald M. Rosberg, | Title: Pitirim A. Sorokin | 11/5/1966 | See Source »

There was more student support for Sorokin than for President Conant. A CRIMSON poll in November showed that three-quarters of the undergraduates favored American neutrality. Peace rallies grew in size and frequency. In April, 1940, a CRIMSON editorial probably expressed the feelings of most when it said. "The United States should ... face the fact that neutral countries in Europe will be crushed.... If only blood can wash away the strange quirks in the human mind that breed war... there is still no reason why it must be done with American blood...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: Clouds of War Over Europe Mean 'Somber Years' for class of '41 | 6/13/1966 | See Source »

...future for almost every member of the class and the War far overshadowed the labor fights, curriculum debates, the tutoring school muckraking, and the Yale games. America would be at peace for not quite six more months, and the Class of '41 would be the first to fight.PITRIM A. SOROKIN 'I prefer unjust peace...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: Clouds of War Over Europe Mean 'Somber Years' for class of '41 | 6/13/1966 | See Source »

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