Pitirim Sorokin

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Age: 28

Academic title: privat-docent at the Petrograd university Interests: sociology, teaching, politics

Views: Socialist-Revolutionary Job: editor at the newspaper "Volya naroda"

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Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Pitirim Sorokin

Petrograd, Russian Republic

01.12.17

The Bolsheviks have clearly lost. Nevertheless, we know that they are not intending to accept this result. They used to hope for a better result, and, at that time, they opposed the Constituent Assembly. Now they will be trying to forbid it and break it up.

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Pitirim Sorokin

Petrograd, Russian Republic

30.11.17

Preliminary results of the Constituent Assembly elections are out. The Bolsheviks lost. Along with the left-wing Socialist-Revolutionaries, they are far behind the right-wing SRs, who got considerably more seats in the Assembly. See more

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Pitirim Sorokin

Petrograd, Russian Republic

27.11.17

I barely escaped another arrest today.

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Pitirim Sorokin

Petrograd, Russian Republic

22.10.17

In every regiment, the Bolsheviks have organized a Military Revolutionary Committee. This is a seed of new insurgencies. I have obtained a revolver, but will I shoot anyone? Unlikely.

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Pitirim Sorokin

Petrograd, Russian Republic

15.10.17

People flee from Petrograd in the thousands. Indeed, why would they remain in a city faced with famine and murders - the work of the Bolshevik hordes? “I advise you to leave too,” a friend told me, whom I saw off to the station. “Leave as soon as possible. Otherwise, it will be too late.”

But to leave Petrograd now? I should not, and I do not want.

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Pitirim Sorokin

Petrograd, Russian Republic

27.09.17

This country is approaching total anarchy, and I have no certainty that we will find a fortunate outcome. We continue to revel in words, in resolutions—we have closed our eyes to everything. This country is already on the path to an anarchy that no one can restrain. Witnesses say the peasants are tired, have stopped going to the voting booths, thirst for order from any source. Monarchist and ant-Semitic propaganda is spreading through the countryside. See more

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Pitirim Sorokin

Petrograd, Russian Republic

20.09.17

I was well aware of the interrelationship between Kerensky and KornilovCommander in Chief of the Petrograd command - from 18 March 1917 long before their definitive falling out. A group of pro-Kornilov technicians were in full opposition to Kerensky's government, which they blamed for the rapid collapse of Russia. Kerenskii, for his part, described Kornilov and his supporters as state enemies. See more

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Age: 28

Academic title: privat-docent at the Petrograd university Views: Socialist-Revolutionary Interests: sociology, teaching, politics Job: editor at the newspaper "Volya naroda"