title: I.P. Pavlov vs. N.I. Bukharin: the critical mind and the arrogance of power.
abstract: In 1923, Pavlov criticized the Marxist theses and the policy of the Soviet regime. In 1924, N.I. Bukharin, a Marxist theoretician and member of the Soviet government, responded to Pavlov's passionate speech with a sarcastic diatribe. I suggest that Pavlov's speech and Bukharin's article represent a conflict between a scientist critical of the Marxist pseudotheory and a journalist's abusive response to the realization that his theory was without much merit.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Charlotte 28223.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Windholz
mesh_terms: D003148:Communism / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010684:Philosophy; D011057:Politics; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011603:Psychophysiology / Q000266:history*; D014586:USSR