孟列夫与汉学研究

孟列夫博士是俄罗斯科学院东方学研究所圣彼得堡分所主任研究员 ,俄罗斯当代著名汉学家。孟列夫著述颇丰 ,既翻译中国古典文学名著 ,也进行历史研究。尤其在敦煌学研究领域成就巨大。同时 ,孟列夫博士还积极推动、参加与中国的文化交流、合作活动。本文对俄国这位大汉学家做了全面介绍     

The loyal dissident: N.A. Bernstein and the double-edged sword of Stalinism

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bernstein (1896-1966) studied movement in order to understand the brain. Contra Pavlov, he saw movements (thus, the brain) as coordinated. For Bernstein, the cortex was a stochastic device; the more cortexes an animal species has, the more variable its actions will be. Actions are planned with a stochastic "model of the future," and relevance is established through blind mathematical search. In the 1950 neoPavlovian affair, he came under strong attack and had to stop experimenting. It is argued that the consistency of his work derived both from both dialectical materialism and the relentless attacks of the neoPavlovians.