Ebook: Revisionist revolution in Vygotsky studies

Contexts and People. The archetype of Soviet psychology : from the Stalinism of the 1930s to the "Stalinist science" of our time / Anton Yasnitsky -- Unity in diversity : the Vygotsky-Luria circle as an informal personal network of scholars / Anton Yasnitsky -- Deconstructing Vygotsky's victimization narrative : a re-examination of the "Stalinist suppression" of Vygotskian theory / Jennifer Fraser and Anton Yasnitsky -- Texts and Legacy. Vygotsky the published : who wrote Vygotsky and what Vygotsky actually wrote / René van der Veer and Anton Yasnitsky -- Vygotsky the unpublished : an overvier of the personal archive (1912-1934) / Ekaterina Zavershneva -- Holism and Transnationalism. Translating Vygotsky : some problems of transnational Vygotskian science / René van der Veer and Anton Yasnitsky -- Did Uzbeks have illusions? : The Luria-Koffka controversy of 1932 / Eli Lamdan and Anton Yasnitsky -- 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 / Anton Yasnitsky -- Epilogue: "Lost in translation" : talking about sense, meaning, and consciousness Anton Yasnitsky and René van der Veer -- Appendices: Bibliograpjy of Vygotsky's published works ; Vygotsky's published works : a(n almost) definitive bibliography ; Vygotsky's and soviet pedological publications, 1924-1936 ; Vygotsky-Luria circle : key protagonists.;"Revisionist Revolution in Vygotsky Studies brings together recent critical investigations which examine historical and textual inaccuracies associated with received understandings of Vygotsky’s work. By deconstructing the Vygotskian narrative, the authors debunk the 'cult of Vygotsky', allowing for a new, exciting interpretation of the logic and direction of his theory. The chapters cover a number of important themes, including: The chronology of Vygotsky’s ideas and theory development, and the main core of his theoretical writings; Relationships between Vygotskians and their Western colleagues; The international reception of Vygotskian psychology and problems of translation; The future development of Vygotskian science. Using Vygotsky’s published and unpublished writings the authors present a detailed historical understanding of Vygotsky’s thought, and the circumstances in which he worked. This volume is the first to provide an overview of revisionist studies of Vygotsky’s work, and is the product of close international collaboration between revisionist scholars. It will be an essential contribution to Vygotskian scholarship, and of great interest to researchers in the history of psychology, history of science, Soviet/Russian history, philosophical psychology and philosophy of science."--Publisher's description.