CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Sources

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE image THE SEMINARIAN CHOOSES SCIENCE (1849–1875)

CHAPTER 1. The Pavlovs of Riazan

CHAPTER 2. Seminarian in the Sixties

CHAPTER 3. Student in St. Petersburg

PART TWO image WILDERNESS YEARS (1875–1890)

CHAPTER 4. The Reluctant Physician

CHAPTER 5. Serafima Vasil’evna Karchevskaia

CHAPTER 6. Time of Troubles

CHAPTER 7. In From the Cold

PART THREE image MAN OF TSARIST SCIENCE (1891–1904)

CHAPTER 8. A Non-Chekhovian Type

CHAPTER 9. The Pavlovs of St. Petersburg

CHAPTER 10. Professor of Physiology

CHAPTER 11. The Physiology Factory: Forces of Production

CHAPTER 12. The Physiology Factory: Relations of Production

CHAPTER 13. Favorite Dogs

CHAPTER 14. A Convincing Synthesis

CHAPTER 15. Dacha Life

CHAPTER 16. A European Reputation

CHAPTER 17. Targeting the Psyche

CHAPTER 18. The Nobel Prize

PART FOUR image NOBELIST IN THE SILVER AGE (1905–1914)

CHAPTER 19. Amid Russia’s Political Crisis

CHAPTER 20. Family Life

CHAPTER 21. Pavlov’s Quest

CHAPTER 22. The Factory Retooled

CHAPTER 23. Battle of Titans

CHAPTER 24. Women Coworkers and the Physiology of Emotion

CHAPTER 25. Maria Kapitonovna Petrova

PART FIVE image WAR AND REVOLUTION (1914–1921)

CHAPTER 26. War

CHAPTER 27. Revolution

CHAPTER 28. Cataclysm

CHAPTER 29. Where Are You, Freedom?

CHAPTER 30. “To Leave My Homeland”

PART SIX image PROSPEROUS DISSIDENT (1922–1929)

CHAPTER 31. The Pavlovs of Leningrad

CHAPTER 32. A Great Journey

CHAPTER 33. Laboratory Revival

CHAPTER 34. Lecturing the Bolsheviks and Leaving the Academy

CHAPTER 35. The Commissar and the Dialectician

CHAPTER 36. Freud, the Flood, and the Physiology of Personality

CHAPTER 37. Two Books and a Beast

CHAPTER 38. Types, Temperament, and Character

CHAPTER 39. Work and Play in City and Countryside

CHAPTER 40. On the Eve of the Great Break

PART SEVEN image ICON OF SOVIET AND WORLD SCIENCE (1929–1936)

CHAPTER 41. International Celebrity

CHAPTER 42. Stalin Times

CHAPTER 43. Pavlov’s Communists

CHAPTER 44. Koltushi: Pavlov’s Science Village

CHAPTER 45. Psychiatry

CHAPTER 46. Gestalt Pavlov Style

CHAPTER 47. Year of Climaxes

CHAPTER 48. At the Summit: The International Physiological Congress

CHAPTER 49. Final Days

Epilogue

Appendix: Pavlov’s Lexicon

Notes

Bibliography

Index