On the other hand, scholars who took over from the imperial era studies of classical Sinology, after suffering severe criticism in the early period of Soviet rule, found their ranks even thinner when they again suffered from Stalin's purge of intellectuals in the 1930's.
另一方面，傳承自帝俄時代，研究古典漢學的學者，在蘇共執政初期猛遭批判之後，一九三○年代又逢史達林整肅知識分子，人才更加凋零。