There will be a memorial service held in honor of Professor Barrington
Moore, Professor Emeritus of Government, on Tuesday, November 1, from
5-7 pm at the Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St., Lower Level
conference room, followed by a reception.
Barrington Moore, the renowned American sociologist and political
scientist who taught at Harvard from 1951 until 1979, died at his home
in Cambridge on September 16th. Moore was the author of a number of
books on historical sociology that focus on Soviet society. Based at the
Russian Research Center at Harvard and in the Government Department, he
published /Soviet Politics: The Dilemma of Power/ (1950) and/ Terror and
Progress: USSR/ (1954), both of which established the foundations of a
political sociology of Soviet power. His best-known work is/ Social
Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy/ (1966), a masterpiece of
comparative methodology that uses both Marxian and Weberian analysis and
inspired similar studies in the sociology of historical processes. His
other writings include /Political Power and Social Theory/ (1958),
/Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery/ (1973), and /Injustice /(1978).
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