Table of Contents

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 Vygotsky the Unpublished: An Overview of Personal Archive (1912—1934), Ekaterina Zavershneva 6.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