[1] He moved to Queens College, City University of New York in 1940 where he became a professor and headed the Psychology department there from 1945 to 1966.
[1] Razran regarded the work of Ivan Pavlov as a "Trojan horse" in the Soviet Union, incompatible with Marxism-Leninism.
In 1950, he published a short piece about the Soviet behaviourist, Emmanuil Enchmen, a loyal Stalinist whose scientific views had been proscribed since 1923.
Complaining that he was too excited to sleep at night, he opined that this was a "major scientific breakthrough" which would lead to an "explosive outburst of research" whose results were "bound to be revolutionary".
Razran was keen to return to Queens College, City University of New York, where he was a professor and planned to carry out further research in this area himself.