Re: [xmca] Which influence does Vygotskji on the today's science in Russia?

[Anton Yasnitsky <the_yasya@yahoo.com>]

1. Which influence does Vygotskji on the today's science in Russia?


The most often quoted Russian psychologist, which is  at least  true of 

the leading Russian psychological journal Voprosy psikhologii.

An object of uncritical admiration and the subject of the cult of personality. 

Hardly anybody actually reads or attempts to understand the guy in Russia today.

Otherwise, how can it be explained that one of the texts considered

as one of the most important contributions of the author has numerous
--at times self-contradictory--repetitions that remained unnoticed 
for more than two decades from 1984 when the text was first published in the Soviet Union?

This is just an example out of dozens.

Thus, in sum, the answer is: they deify Vygotsky-the-icon-and-idol and, at the same time, 

do not care about Vygotsky-the-scholar. Seemingly, a contradiction, but, in fact,

it is not.

References and clarifications concerning this comment are available upon request.


2.  How extremely does the effects of the ideological tabooing Vygotskij's
(e.g. Pädologie decree of 1936)...

Let's stop here. Vygotskii was NEVER tabooed or officially banned, either in Stalinist Soviet Union,

or anywhere else. The [fairly laudatory] references to his works can be found in a bunch 
of publications of late 1930s--early 1940s (including most prestigious and utterly censored
publications in Great Soviet Encyclopedia of 1940), late 1940s, and, then, a volume 
of Collected Works was published in the USSR in 1956. This was followed by yet another
volume of 1960, and then "The Psychology of Art" (two subsequent Russian editions of
1965 and 1968). Then, A.N. Leontiev, the best student of Vygotsky, ultimately came to 
power and, despite the Central Committee of the Communist Party's authorization to 
publish the multi-volume collection of Vygotsky's works, the project was put on hold
indeterminately, and was ultimately realized only after the death of the three best Vygotsky's
students in power back then: A.N. Leontiev, Luria, and Zaporozhets in 1977, 1979, and 1981 respectively. 
Whatever was published in the six-volume collection of Vygotsky's works in 1982-1984 
was heavily censored, distorted and, at times, falsified under the editorship of M.G. Yaroshevskii.
A decade later Yaroshevskii came up with a nice phrase variously translated as "oppressed" or

"repressed science", but he hardly meant to describe this way his editorial work on the 
Collected Works of Vygotsky.
References and clarifications concerning this comment are also available upon request. 

Cheers,

AY




________________________________
 From: Ivo Banaco <ibanaco@gmail.com>
To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu> 
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 3:09:25 PM
Subject: [xmca] Which influence does Vygotskji on the today's science in Russia?
 
I have received this e-mail from a german student ("I come from rostock in
Germany and i study psychotherapy for children and adolescents") with the
following questions which I'll post below, as I think this list is much
more apt to reply it. Thank you very much in advance for your help.

- Which influence does Vygotskji on the today's science in Russia?

- How extremely does the effects of the ideological tabooing Vygotskij's
(e.g. Pädologie decree of 1936) at the development of the total European
psychology?


Well I know...not easy questions...but from this good discussions will
certainly arise...

Ivo
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