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Pitirim Sorokin

1889 - 1968

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Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin (; Russian: Питири́м Алекса́ндрович Соро́кин; 4 February [O.S. 23 January] 1889 – 10 February 1968) was a Russian American sociologist and political activist, who contributed to the social cycle theory. Sorokin was a professor at Saint Petersburg Imperial University. He was repressed by Vladimir Lenin's communist regime, which led Sorokin to flee to Czechoslovakia with the help of Thomas Masaryk and Edouard Benes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pitirim Sorokin has received more than 489,810 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Pitirim Sorokin is the 18th most popular sociologist, the 242nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 249th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Sociologist.

Pitirim Sorokin was a sociologist who was most famous for his theory of social and cultural evolution.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Pitirim Sorokin ranks 18 out of 79. Before him are Ulrich Beck, Immanuel Wallerstein, Niklas Luhmann, Gabriel Tarde, Karl Mannheim, and Manuel Castells. After him are Alain Touraine, Peter L. Berger, Paul Lazarsfeld, C. Wright Mills, Robert Michels, and Thomas Luckmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Pitirim Sorokin ranks 27. Before him are Otto Frank, Han van Meegeren, Jacob L. Moreno, Risto Ryti, Carl Theodor Dreyer, and Zalman Shazar. After him are Vasily Blyukher, Mercédès Jellinek, Taha Hussein, Victor Fleming, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, and Hans-Jürgen von Arnim. Among people deceased in 1968, Pitirim Sorokin ranks 26. Before him are Enid Blyton, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Corneille Heymans, Jim Clark, Kees van Dongen, and José Nasazzi. After him are Ivan Ribar, Neal Cassady, Alice Guy-Blaché, Kirill Meretskov, Alexandre Kojève, and Giovanni Messe.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pitirim Sorokin ranks 242 out of 3,761. Before him are Gerhard Barkhorn (1919), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), Ivan Krylov (1769), Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), and Boris Nemtsov (1959). After him are Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839), Arthur Adamov (1908), Viktor Zubkov (1941), Vasily Blyukher (1889), Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia (1876), and Dmitry Yazov (1924).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among sociologists born in Russia, Pitirim Sorokin ranks 1. After him are Georges Gurvitch (1894), and Boris Kagarlitsky (1958).

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