Pavlov's Short Term Influences

Pavlov's experiments were greatly approved by most educated russain people. He was able to keep experimenting through the 1900s and his ideas were even heard of in the west. He even had a published book on conditional reflexes in 1927. The Soviet Government was very impressed with Pavlov's ideas and his research was funded by them until he was much older. Even Lenin thought that Pavlov's ideas were brilliant. The general population did not know much about him, nor care very much either. He was rather private and, though he did win a Nobel Prize, he was not in the public eye much for his ideas (he did however have a strong opposition to many communist ideals, which he was quite vocal about). All in all, he was regarded as quite influential to the science and psychology world, but only within the more educated social circles of society. This is probably because Pavlov's ideas were so new and strange that the lower and middle classes did not understand them, given the fact that they were barley educated at all.