VERA A. KOLTSOVA is Head of the Laboratory of the History of Psychology and Historical Psychology of the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.YURI N. OLEINIK is Dean of the faculty of psychology of the Youth Institute in Moscow and senior scientist of the Laboratory of the History of Psychology and Historical Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences.ALBERT R. GILGEN is Professor of Psychology at the University of Northern Iowa and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the American Association of Applied and Preventative Psychology. His most recent book is Chaos Theory in Psychology coedited with Frederick David Abraham (Greenwood Press, 1995).CAROL K. GILGEN has a background in Russian and political science./e She is the coeditor, with her husband Albert Gilgen, of the International Handbook of Psychology (Greenwood Press, 1987).