The FIRST VOLUME, issued in 2014, contains Sorokin's early writings and publications from student days. Most of these have not been reissued for more than a hundred years since their their first appearance. Put together these works demonstrate the young researcher’s wide-ranging curiosity about many scholarly and artistic matters as well as his increasing interest in emerging political issues of that time. And so this book would be found valuable for those curious about the mental development of this outstanding scholar but still more so for would-be experts on Russian social and political thought during the first part of the twentieth century. For ethnologists and other investigators specifically interested in Komi ethnic development and its culture, their share is considerable, as the book contains number of important “primary source” articles that Sorokin had written.

The SECOND VOLUME, also published in 2014, presents "Hunger As A Factor,” Sorokin’s chilling report and analysis of physical and social effects of human starvation. These began to affect Russian city and countryside populations during the Revolution and became a devastating famine during the last years of Militant Communism when entire villages in hard-struck famine areas of Samara and Saratov provinces lost their inhabitants. The book was barely published in 1922 when by the order of Communist authorities it was seized and all materials destroyed. Its brief appearance contributed substantially to the Sorokins being banished from the country in that year. After Pitirim’s death in 1968, his widow, Elena Petrovna Sorokin, published a 1975 version in English based on whatever drafts, page proofs, and other fragments that they were able to save.

The THIRD VOLUME, issued in 2015, included Pitirim's first substantial publication in the field of Sociology of Law and behavioral sciences. It was based on his magister's dissertation in St. Petersburg University - "Crime and Punishment; Heroism and Reward.” Pitirim was 24 years old when it was published and received highly positive reviews. In this research Sorokin studied human behavior, more specifically two of its forms: the criminal and the socially-rewarded, as well as their effects on society. According to Sorokin it is "mismatch in patterns of behavior" (the main reason of criminal behavior, as he suggested) that would facilitate analysis of ethnic, religious, and other conflicts in a society.

The FOURTH VOLUME (2015) contains the first two editions of Sorokin's writings published in the US, "Leaves from A Russian Diary" and “The Sociology of Revolution." "Leaves" is a unique document by a sociologist who witnessed and participated in historical events of truly global magnitude as they developed in Russia between February, 1917, and September, 1922. During Sorokin’s subsequent 9 months’ stay in Prague after expulsion from Soviet Russia, he focused on the topic of revolutions and wrote a draft in Russian of his findings. This was translated into English after the Sorokins had left Czechoslovakia for the US and was subsequently published in 1925. “Sociology of Revolution” is substantial, representing Sorokin’s pioneering sociological analysis over revolutions and their effects on humankind. Some early post-publication reviews of both books together with other commentaries are included here, perhaps showing that until then the topic had rarely been considered a proper subject for sociological investigation.

The FIFTH VOLUME (2017) is made up of short literary writings with “The Laundry of Human Souls” as the central piece in such a genre. The first part of the volume contains articles, pamphlets, and overviews written during 1907 -1923 that reflect Sorokin's development as a scholar and as a human being. The second part in the volume includes the Sci-fi novel, which works a number of Sorokin’s personal ideas and experiences into the story, yet reflects his vision of how society could be reformed. The third part presents a number of Pitirim’s poems, several influenced by Russian symbolism popular with Russian writers around the turn of the twentieth century. The fourth part of the book is a supplement containing three unrelated literary pieces written after he moved to the US: journal notes on an eventful midsummer 1911 excursion in northern Russia. another describing a mid-1920s vacation trip taken from Minnesota through parts of upper midwestern America that offer marvelous vistas of freshwater lakes, hills and mountains, passing on through the Black Hills of South Dakota to reach Wyoming’s Yellowstone Park with its hot springs and geysers— all this without leaving out mention of occasional troubles with his car, with challenges encountered negotiating muddy roads, or unexpected encounters with bears, other fauna, or other vacationers. Pitirim and Elena made several such trips during the remainder of the 1920s, sometimes alone and at others together with Carle and Madeleine Zimmerman from the University of Minnesota or other neighboring friends. The third article is a unique account he made of all of the kinds of azaleas and rhododendrons and their hybrids that he planted on the hillside garden beside the family home in Winchester. These flourished under his care and produced a brilliant springtime display for many years thereafter, Some are still surviving more than 50 years after his death.

The SIXTH VOLUME (2018) was prepared for release to celebrate Pitirim Sorokin's 130th anniversary. From an earlier Russian translation “The Crisis of Our Age" was already familiar to many Russian readers, but the accompanying book, “Russia and the United States" appears here for the first time in a Russian translation. “The Crisis of Our Age” represents a simpler version of an analysis of world events that appeared earlier in Sorokin’s masterwork "Social and Cultural Dynamics,.” The arguments there are more substantial for being presented in greater detail, but the main conclusions are similar in both books. Popularization of sociological ideas came naturally to Pitirim, and among his published works several were intended to reach well educated but nonspecialist readers to attract a wider audience than if principally designed for professional sociologists. "Russia and the United States (1944) was such a book. Sorokin’s comparative analysis of cultural values held by ordinary citizens in the two countries showed that a surprisingly large number of these have been held in common for years. According to him, the degree of acceptance of these values by people in both countries may fluctuate for awhile at times of stress by factors like contemporary political events, but they eventually return to the more normal near-equal settings.

The SEVENTH VOLUME (2019) “Popular Overviews of Law Theory, Sociology, and Social Pedagogy” included three books Sorokin wrote in 1919-1923: "Elementary Textbook On the General Theory of Law in Connection with the Concept of State", "Accessible Textbook on Sociology", and "Popular Overviews of Social Pedagogy and Politics" (the latter being issued in Russia for the first time). It has been over a hundred years since these books were published, and yet they are still contemporary and retain their value for education. Besides, these three books represent a blueprint of Sorokin's system of sociology that he developed in later decades.

In the EIGHTH VOLUME (2019) bearing a cover title marked “CОЧИНЕНИЯ” or “Writings 1919-1923” shows Sorokin during the crossroads of his career: his final months in Soviet Russia before being banished 1922. The various articles, reviews, and reports assembled here were written during turbulent times in Russia and the end of his career there, and after his banishment in 1922, to resettlement and rehabilitation in Czechoslovakia. (For more details see our article on the Sorokins’ GoldenYears in Prague elsewhere on this site.) This book includes his famous article, “Contemporary Development of Russia" that generated an outburst of discussions among Russian emigrés living in Prague as well as in Berlin.

The NINTH VOLUME (2020) presents "Contemporary Sociological Theories" Sorokin wrote when he was teaching at the University of Minnesota (1928). For several decades this book was a prime textbook (or principal source) relied on by graduate students and practicing sociologists in the US, and it established his reputation as a formidable figure among them. This is its first Russian translation and publication.

At present, the TENTH VOLUME presenting “System of of Sociology” is nearly ready for release. This book is essential for understanding Sorokin's vision of Sociology during his Russian period, and though Pitirim considered some of its concepts superseded by later views he expressed in books written in English during the 1930s and ’40s, these were not generally available to Russian scholars until well after the Second World War.

It is important to emphasize that the project is not 'for profit'. Almost all volumes, as well as other publications of the Sorokin's Research Center are accessible to the public on the web (http://rksorokinctr.org/index.php/2015-09-02-10-47-27.html). Hard copies are distributed among libraries and schools in the Republic of Komi and Russia.