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Vygotsky in Perspective
Lev Vygotsky has acquired the status of one of the grand masters in psychology. Following the English translation and publication of his Collected Works there has been a new wave of interest in Vygotsky, accompanied by a burgeoning of secondary literature. Ronald Miller argues that Vygotsky is increasingly being 'read' and understood through secondary sources and that scholars have claimed Vygotsky as the foundational figure for their own theories, eliminating his most distinctive contributions and distorting his theories. Miller peels away the accumulated layers of commentary to provide a clearer understanding of how Vygotsky built and developed his arguments. In an in-depth analysis of the last three chapters of Vygotsky's book Thinking and Speech, Miller provides a critical interpretation of the core theoretical concepts that constitute Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory, including the development of concepts, mediation, the zone of proximal development, conscious awareness, inner speech, word meaning and consciousness.
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Vygotsky in perspective
\"Lev Vygotsky has acquired the status of one of the grand masters in psychology. Following the English translation and publication of his Collected Works there has been a new wave of interest in Vygotsky accompanied by a burgeoning of secondary literature. Ronald Miller argues that Vygotsky is increasingly being 'read' and understood through secondary sources and that scholars have claimed Vygotsky as the foundational figure for their own theories, eliminating his most distinctive contributions and distorting his theories. Miller peels away the accumulated layers of commentary to provide a clearer understanding of how Vygotsky built and developed his arguments. In an in-depth analysis of the last three chapters of Vygotsky's book Thinking and Speech, Miller provides a critical interpretation of the core theoretical concepts that constitute Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory, including the development of concepts, mediation, the zone of proximal development, conscious awareness, inner speech, word meaning and consciousness\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Gulag Voices
Anne Applebaum wields her considerable knowledge of a dark chapter in human history and presents a collection of the writings of survivors of the Gulag, the Soviet concentration camps. Although the opening of the Soviet archives to scholars has made it possible to write the history of this notorious concentration camp system, documents tell only one side of the story.Gulag Voicesnow fills in the other half.
The backgrounds of the writers reflect the extraordinary diversity of the Gulag itself. Here are the personal stories of such figures as Dmitri Likhachev, a renowned literary scholar; Anatoly Marchenko, the son of illiterate laborers; and Alexander Dolgun, an American citizen. These remembrances-many of them appearing in English for the first time, each chosen for both literary and historical value-collectively spotlight the strange moral universe of the camps, as well as the relationships that prisoners had with one another, with their guards, and with professional criminals who lived beside them.
A vital addition to the literature of this era,annotated for a generation that no longer remembers the Soviet Union,Gulag Voiceswill inform, interest, and inspire, offering a source for reflection on human nature itself.
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A Revolution of Their Own
A Revolution of Their Own illuminates the harsh reality of women's daily lives in the Soviet Union as no previous book has done covering the stories of eight Russian women, offering an extremely rare perspective into personal life in the Soviet era.
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Reclaiming the “Human Factor”
During the Perestroika years, humanistic psychology experienced a remarkable surge in the Soviet Union. This upturn was typically attributed to Western influence. Yet this narrative of passive import overlooks the agency of Soviet psychologists who engaged with American ideas not as disciples, but as active partners responding to and shaping a broader professional and political transformation. This article examines the boom of humanistic psychology in the late 1980s as a dynamic process influenced by the unique context of Gorbachev’s reforms. The study highlights how Soviet professionals used exchanges with American psychologists - especially those from the Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP) - to craft their own Perestroika. Gorbachev’s rhetoric of revitalizing the “human factor” opened up new possibilities for centering the individual in both therapy and education. Figures such as Carl Rogers, Ruth Sanford, and Virginia Satir catalyzed this shift through live demonstrations and collaborative workshops, but the redefinition of psychological practice was largely driven from within. Drawing on media coverage and professional reflections, the analysis shows how humanistic methods enabled Soviet practitioners to overcome state-imposed constraints. What emerged was not the wholesale adoption of Western models but a “Perestroika from below” among late-Soviet humanistic psychologists: a grassroots reimagining of the discipline that paralleled and occasionally outpaced official reforms. This ‘Perestroika from below’ included creating a new, robust professionalism, forming independent institutions, and reclaiming state-dominated language.
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