[Xmca-l] Re: Writing date of Leontiev - The Present Tasks of Soviet Psychology ?

[Clay Spinuzzi]

Thanks, David, Mike, and Haydi, for your efforts and for the link to the
older xmca thread! I appreciate the context as well as the link to the PDF.
CS


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> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 08:09:57 +1000
> From: David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com>
> Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Writing date of Leontiev - The Present Tasks of
>         Soviet Psychology ?
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> Clay:
> We discussed this text on xmca back in 2011, e.g.
> http://lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/Mail/xmcamail.2011_12.dir/msg00047.html
> Here's what Mike said at the time:
> "From the book itself, it is difficult to date the articles or to link them
> to a particular occasion. The book was published in 1961 and came from
> East Germany. From the introductory material by Hans Hiebsch, an East
> German
> > psychologist, it appears to have followed the "Victory of Lysenko in
> August 1948." It appeared in "Soviet Pedagogy" in Number 1, 1949. I do not
> have a copy.
> I think I have a copy of it back in my library in Korea, in a pamphlet put
> out by psychiatrists sympathetic to the Communist Party--sometime in the
> mid-fifties, at the height of the McCarthy witch-hunt. But I'm in Australia
> right now!
> David Kellogg
> Macquarie University


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