Background
Karpovich, Mikhail was born in 1887.
Karpovich, Mikhail was born in 1887.
Studied history at Petersburg University. Studied history at Petersburg University.
Member of the SR Party since his schooldays in Tifiis. After graduation, lecturer in history there, 1914. Under the Provisional Government, sent to the Russian Embassy in the USA, 1917.
Remained there after the
October Revolution, 1917, becoming a political refugee, and later an American citizen. Lecturer in Russian history at Harvard, from 1927, professor until 1957. Head of the Slavonic department at Harvard, 1949-1954.
Editor of one of the best Russian emigre magazines after World War II, Novyi Zhurnal, New York, 1943-1959.
Every religion forces people to rely on outside authority, thus depriving them to become self-sufficient.
Every person has rights to express his or her opinion, but the opinion could be expressed if it was in accordance with the general interests of Soviet society.