1889 |
born in the village of Turyia (Northern Russia) in the family of the Russian father, a church painter, and a Komi peasant mother. |
1904, June 2 |
graduated from the Gam advanced school in rural Komi |
1904, Aug. |
accepted to Khrenovo Teachers’ Seminary in Kostroma |
1905 |
became a member of Socialist Revolutionist party |
1906 |
first arrested |
1907 |
Missionary of Revolution “Comrade Ivan” |
1907 |
joined Evening Courses for Workers (Chsernyaevskiye Kursi) |
1909 |
student of Psycho Neurological Institute |
1910 |
enrolled in Saint Petersburg University |
1911 |
arrested a second time |
1911 |
a trip to Italy as a nurse to escape arrest for political activities |
1913 |
a third arrest for writing a political pamphlet
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1913 |
published Crime and Punishment: Service and Reward |
1914 |
graduated from University with First Class Dilploma |
1916 |
Master in Law oral exam and the degree of “Magistrant in Criminal Law” |
1917 |
the editor in chief of Social Revolutionary newspaper “Delo Naroda” (The Affair of the People) [later the Will of People] |
1917 |
a delegate of the Constitutional Assembly of Russia |
1918, Jan. 2 |
arrest by Bolsheviks and imprisonment in Peter and Paul Fortress |
1918 |
on anti Bolsheviks mission in the Russian North |
1918, Fall |
arrest and death sentence in Velikiy Ustyug |
1918, Dec.13 |
according to Lenin’s order was transferred to Moscow and released |
1921, Fall |
prohibitions to teach at the University |
1921 |
together with Ivan Pavlov organized the Society for Objective Study of Human Behavior |
1922, April 22 |
public defense of two volumes “System of Sociology” as a dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Sociology |
1922, May |
the book “The Influence of Hunger on Human Behavior, Social Life, and Social Organization” was dispersed by the Communist |
1922, Sept. 23 |
expelled from the Communist Russia |
1922, Sept. |
the beginning of émigré life in Berlin |
1922 |
personal invitation of the President of Czechoslovakia to move to Prague |
1923, Oct. |
on “Martha Washington” boat to the United States |
1924, Jan., March |
guest lecturing at the Universities of Illinois and Wisconsin |
1924, Fall |
position at the University of Minnesota |
1929 |
an invitation from the Harvard University Department of Economics and the Committee on Sociology and Social Ethics and the following offer to found a new Department of Sociology |
1930 |
started teaching at Harvard |
1931 |
the Department of Sociology was established in Harvard with its first Chairman Pitirim Sorokin |
1931 |
Peter was born |
1933 |
Sergei was born |
1932, Feb. |
moved to the current family house in Cambridge |
1937 |
presided over the International Congress of Sociology in Paris |
1949, Feb. |
Harvard Research Center in Creative Altruism was established |
1955 |
retirement at the age of 66 and status of emeritus; focus on writings |
1961 |
President of the First International Congress for Comparative Studies of Civilization at Salzburg |
1963, April |
elected as a President of American Sociological Association |
1968, Feb. 10 |
Pitirim A. Sorokin died at the age of 79. |