Editing Ivan Pavlov (section)

=== Relationship with the Soviet government ===
Pavlov was highly regarded by the [[Soviet government]], and he was able to continue his research. He was praised by [[Vladimir Lenin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/jan/24.htm|title=Concerning The Conditions Ensuring The Research Work Of Academician I. P. Pavlov and his associates|author=Lenin, V.I.|work=[[Izvestia]]|date=11 February 1921}}</ref> Despite praise from the Soviet Union government, the money that poured in to support his laboratory, and the honours he was given, Pavlov made no attempts to conceal the disapproval and contempt with which he regarded [[Soviet Communism]].<ref name="Britannica"/>

In 1923, Pavlov stated that he would not sacrifice even the hind leg of a frog to the type of social experiment that the [[Communist regime]] was conducting in Russia. Four years later, he wrote to [[Joseph Stalin]], protesting at what was being done to Russian intellectuals and saying he was ashamed to be a Russian.<ref name="cavendish9"/> After the murder of [[Sergei Kirov]] in 1934, Pavlov wrote several letters to [[Vyacheslav Molotov]] criticizing the mass persecutions that followed, and asking for the reconsideration of cases pertaining to several people he knew personally.<ref name="cavendish9"/>

In the final years of his life, Pavlov's attitude towards the Soviet government softened; without fully endorsing its policies, he praised the Soviet government for its support of scientific institutions.<ref>{{cite book |last=Graham |first=Loren R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EA1MPQAACAAJ |title=Science, Philosophy, and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union |date=1989 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-06443-9 |pages=161 }}</ref> In 1935, a few months before his death, Pavlov read a draft of the 1936 "[[Stalin Constitution]]" and expressed his pleasure at the apparent dawn of a more free and democratic Soviet Union.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Todes |first=Daniel P. |date=1995 |title=Pavlov and the Bolsheviks |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23331887 |journal=History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences |volume=17 |issue=3 |pages=379–418 |jstor=23331887 |issn=0391-9714}}</ref>