Revisionist Revolution in Vygotsky Studies

Anton Yasnitsky is research associate at University of Toronto, Canada, specialising in Vygotskian Studies and cultural-historical developmental psychology, history of human, behavioral and psychoneurological sciences, anthropology of Soviet/Russian/East European culture(s), history, mechanisms, and strategies of transnational scientific research Rene van der Veer is Professor at Leiden, Department of Education and Child Studies, the Netherlands. Main research interests include Cultural historical theory, Attachment, History of ideas

• Foreward, Alex Kozulin PART I. Contexts and People 1. The archetype of Soviet psychology: From Stalinism of the 1930s to the "Stalinist science" of our days, Anton Yasnitsky 2. Unity in diversity: Vygotsky-Luria Circle as an informal personal network of scholars, Anton Yasnitsky 3. Deconstructing Vygotsky’s Victimization Narrative: A Re-Examination of the "Stalinist Suppression" of Vygotskian Theory, Jennifer Fraser and Anton Yasnitsky PART II. Texts and Legacy 4. Vygotsky the Published: Who wrote Vygotsky and what Vygotsky actually wrote, René van der Veer & Anton Yasnitsky 5. Vygotsky the Unpublished: An Overview of Personal Archive (1912—1934), Ekaterina Zavershneva 6. "The way to freedom": Vygotsky in 1932, Ekaterina Zavershneva PART III. Holism and Transnationalism 7. Translating Vygotsky: Some problems of transnational Vygotskian science, René van der Veer and Anton Yasnitsky 8. Did Uzbeks have illusions? The Luria—Koffka controversy of 1932, Eli Lamdan and Anton Yasnitsky 9. A Transnational History of The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship: The birth of cultural-historical gestalt psychology of Alexander Luria, Kurt Lewin, Lev Vygotsky, and Others, Anton Yasnitsky EPILOGUE 10. "Lost in translation": Talking about sense, meaning, and consciousness, Anton Yasnitsky & René van der Veer APPENDIX Appendix A. Bibliography of Vygotsky’s Published Works Appendix B. Vygotsky’s and Soviet Pedological Publications in 1924-1936 Appendix C. Vygotsky-Luria Circle: Key Protagonists

‘An indispensable volume for the intellectual project of coming to terms with Vygotsky’s theory and adapting it to current problems in new contexts’. – Peter Smagorinsky, The University of Georgia, USA