After 1917 when the Soviet Communist Party overthrew the Czar and seized political power, Sinology in the USSR came under the sweeping guidance of "Marxism-Leninism Thought." It was kicked around between politics and scholarship following the tightening and relaxation of ideological controls and the vagaries of Soviet relations with Communist China.
一九一七年蘇聯共產黨推翻沙皇、取得政權後，蘇聯漢學研究便籠罩在「馬列思想」的指導原則下，隨著意識型態控制的緊鬆，及其與中共關係的時好時壞，載沈載浮在政治目的與學術精神之間。