Realized and unrealized Pitirim Sorokin’s forecasts (from the history of anti-bolshevism emigration to the USA )

Abstract

The article is devoted to the political points of view of famous Russian emigrant
and scientist-sociologist Pitirim Sorokin who lived and worked in the USA. In the
second half of 1920s he published “Letter to a friend about Russia” where he forecasted
a soon fall of the Bolshevik regime in the Soviet Union. The article reveals
not only Sorokin’s political views and moods in the second half of 1920s as well
as position of those public leaders in emigration who were in sympathy with the
scientist-sociologist’s point of view and published his “letters” in their own titles,
and spread these ides among Russian community in the USA and other countries