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...morning nearly five years after the Russian Revolution of 1917, an article headlined "Professor Sorokin" appeared in Pravda. Written by Lenin himself, the article stated that though Sorokin had never agreed with the Bolsheviks, he was a true revolutionary at heart. Russia, Lenin concluded, "needs his mind...
...spent weeks in an over-crowded prison in north Russia, this statement meant an unexpected salvation. Each day between the hours of four and twelve, guards had entered his cellblock to read off a list of names. "This was a kindly invitation to be shot," Sorokin recalls, and he adds that most of the prisoners were almost willing to accept. The prison conditions were bad, food was nearly as limited at space, and disease was a commonplace...
...once freed, Sorokin still refused to collaborate with the Bolsheviks and after several close escapes, managed to smuggle himself out of the country. "What a relief," he recalls, "to cross the border and know that this time they could not come after me." Sorokin's last flight from Russia marked the end of an active, fifteen-year career as a revolutionary and gave him the opportunity to continue his work in sociology. Before leaving Russia in 1922, he had become prominent in both fields...
...evidence of a situation which he said exists throughout the country, Sorokin cited the rapidly increasing divorce rate, the increase in illegitimacy and the decrease in pre-marital virginity...
Lecturing before the Social Relations Society, Sorokin stated that American culture "is now permeated with a sexiness that oozes out everywhere." He predicted that if the current trend toward laxity continues, pro-marital chastity will be a historical myth...