STALIN AND THE USES OF PSYCHOLOGY,

Abstract

Certain Soviet ideological trends of recent years are discussed in their relation to the regime's policy in internal affairs. These trends center around the militant revival in Soviet psychology of Pavlov's teachings on the conditioned reflex. The Pavlovian revival, which began in 1949, is examined in connection with various developments in biology, political economy, and other fields, and the entire ideological complex is related to a central policy motivation which is called 'transformism.' The final part of the study is concerned with various indications of a postStalin retreat from transformism and the ideology associated with it.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1956
Accession Number
AD0605009

Entities

People

  • R. C. Tucker

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Behavior And Behavior Mechanisms
  • Behavioral Disciplines And Activities
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Motivation
  • Psychology

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Political Science/ International Relations/ European Studies