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CONTENTS
Foreword: how to reconstruct deconstructions
Acknowledgements
PART I Contexts and people
1 The archetype of Soviet psychology: from the Stalinism of the 1930s to the “Stalinist science” of our time
Psychoneurological disciplines in the Soviet Union in the 1920s
Soviet psychology as a “Stalinist science” from the 1930s to our time
Archetype of contemporary Russian psychology (1990s–2010s): a sketch for a portrait
(1) Centralization and control
(2) Cliquism and patronage
(3) Ritualism
(4) Gap between theory and practice
(5) Intellectual and linguistic isolationism
(6) Cultism and hagiographies
Revisionist Vygotskian narrative rewritten against the background of the history of “Stalinist science”
2 Unity in diversity: the Vygotsky–Luria circle as an informal personal network of scholars
The “school of Vygotsky–Leontiev–Luria” narrative
The Vygotsky–Luria circle as informal personal network
Phase one (1924–1927): prehistory of the Vygotsky–Luria circle
Phase two (1927–1931): Vygotsky–Luria circle formation
Phase three (1931–1934): Vygotsky–Luria circle and the beginning of specialization and separation (Moscow–Kharkov–Leningrad)
Phase four (1934–1936): the circles of Vygotskians and disintegration of the original research program
Phase five (1936–1941): the beginning of the “Vygotsky–Leontiev–Luria school”
3 Deconstructing Vygotsky’s victimization narrative: a re-examination of the “Stalinist suppression” of Vygotskian theory
Deconstructing the narrative of the “Vygotsky ban”
Why the narrative of the “Vygotsky ban” is problematic
Operationalizing “offi cial” bans: the mechanics of Soviet censorship
Vygotsky’s declining publication rate: multiple meanings?
Pedology as a possible culprit: the 1936 decree
Vygotsky’s posthumous legacy and the many meanings of the ban
PART II Texts and legacy
4 Vygotsky the published: who wrote Vygotsky and what Vygotsky actually wrote
English-language publication record
Vygotsky’s published psychological works of 1924–1936: general overview
The case of Thinking and speech (1934)
Vygotsky’s self-assessment
Vygotsky’s autobiographic offi cial documents and publications
Vygotsky’s private documents and correspondence
“The lost works”
Conclusion: Vygotsky’s foundational works
5 Vygotsky the unpublished: an overview of the personal archive (1912–1934)
The main reasons to study Vygotsky’s personal archive
General characteristics of the personal notes
Outside appearance and degree of preservation
Special characteristics of the work with Vygotsky’s notes
The most important archival documents: series of notes, exercise books and notebooks, separate notes, letters
Notes from the years 1912–1930
Exercise books and notebooks
Various notes
Letters
Notes from 1930 to 1934
Series of documents
The notebooks
Scattered notes
Letters
Vygotsky’s last note
6 “The way to freedom”: Vygotsky in 1932
The plan for the unwritten book On the question of the study of consciousness
Remarks about the psychophysical problem
Propositions for the talks by Vygotsky’s collaborators
PART III Holism and transnationalism
7 Translating Vygotsky: some problems of transnational Vygotskian science
A transnational history of Vygotsky in context
The French connection
Anglo-Saxon ties: a Cold War story
The transnational Vygotskian network in action
Typology of Vygotsky’s texts and sources of error
Types of error
Inaccuracies
Suppression of terms or passages
Suppression of names
Unidentified or suppressed citations
Insertions
Multiple retranslations
Conclusion: the “Six Commandments” for the translator
8 Did Uzbeks have illusions? The Luria-Koffka controversy of 1932
Alexander Luria: “Uzbeks have no illusions!”
The historiography of the problem
The expeditions to Central Asia of 1931 and 1932
Kurt Koffka: “Uzbeks do have illusions!”
Why was Luria’s study not published? The reception of Central Asian research in the Soviet Union in the 1930s
Why did Luria interpret the data the way he did? The case of Vygotsky’s and Luria’s vulgar Marxism
What did Luria actually (fail to) see in Central Asia in 1931–1932? The cultural-historical psychology of Wertheimer and Koffka
9 A transnational history of “the beginning of a beautiful friendship“: the birth of the cultural-historical Gestalt psychology of Alexander Luria, Kurt Lewin, Lev Vygotsky, and others
1925–1929: Vygotsky’s and Luria’s trips to Europe and their consequences
1929–1930: IX International Congress of Psychology and the “holistic revolution”
1930–1931 and later: migrations of German Gestaltists
1930s: “holistic revolution” in a Lewinian key
1934–1936: Vygotsky Festschrift that never was
1936: “Topologische Meeting, Moskau/Charkow”
Epilogue: “Stalinist science” in action
Epilogue
10 “Lost in translation”: talking about sense, meaning, and consciousness
Appendices
Appendix A Bibliography of Vygotsky’s published works. Vygotsky’s published works: a(n almost) definitive bibliography
Publications of 1916–1923
Publications of 1924–1933
Posthumous (i.e. 1934 and after) and foreign publications
Appendix B Vygotsky’s and Soviet pedological publications, 1924–1936
Appendix C Vygotsky-Luria circle: key protagonists
Abbreviations and archival and documentary sources
Notes
References
Index
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