[Daviscenter-list] Memorial for Professor Barrington Moore

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). -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu