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My correspondence with Prof.Todes gave me an insight into how much work went into his book. He disclosed how he "Spent 25 years studying 15-20 Russian archives, especially the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg (which holds Pavlov's personal papers), the archives of the Communist Party and State, and those of the institutions where Pavlov worked. These materials are available nowhere else (except for the copies in files that now clutter up my home office).
I was very fortunate that one Russian archivist was willing to teach me how to read Pavlov's handwriting; and that many others helped me along the way (including my wife Eleonora, who is Russian). The other main source was actually reading Pavlov's works. I don't think anybody had done that carefully for a very long time-- instead people just repeated cliches from earlier works about Pavlov (which is of course much easier—and faster (back to the effects of the "market") than actually reading and reflecting about them, especially given the language barrier for many."
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Image Credit : Wellcome Library, London
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Daniel Todes’s massive tome on physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936), the man who, our
textbooks tell us, trained dogs to salivate to a bell, transformed almost everything I had come to
learn about that towering figure over my twenty-year career as a psychologist.
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Wellcome Collection
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A splendid site to visit if you want some original archival material. Most collections come under a CC BY 4.0 license.
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Mechanics of the brain
A film by Vsevolod Pudovkin
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1926 | 43 minutes | Black & White| Documentary
The “Pavlovian bell” (a conditional stimulus or CS) was made famous by this
1926 footage of “Mechanics in the brain” as well as a 1906 Science article
quoting a Huxley lecture at Charing Cross Hospital in London. It was also
mentioned in 1923 publications of The Scientific Monthly & the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology.
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Book Review
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Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science
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This book will enlighten you about many errors in the knowledge that has been passed on to us
through textbooks and I would like to call as Pavlovian “mythology.” For instance, we understand
that Ivan Pavlov never trained a dog to salivate to the sound of a bell.
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