Background
Timashev, Nikolai was born in 1886 in Petersburg.
Timashev, Nikolai was born in 1886 in Petersburg.
Educated at the Lycee, 1908. Graduated in law from Petersburg University.
Professor of law, Petrograd Polytechnic, 1917. Involved in the Tagantsev affair (resistance to communism among the Petersburg intelligentsia). Fled to Finland, 1921.
Professor of the Russian law faculty in Prague, 1923. Professor of Institut d’Etudes Slaves, Paris, 1928. Lecturer in sociology at Harvard University, 1936.
Professor of sociology at Fordham University, 1940-1957. Editor of the magazine Novyi Zhurnal, 1960.
All religious orders impose irrational rules of good and bad behaviour.
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.