Re: [xmca] Cross-Cultural Psychology Bulletin

Ah, yes, the past Peter.
Who was not brave enough to undergo what when lives were on the line,not
only
yours but your family's?

The new version of the Luria autobiorgraphy with a DVD specifying some of
this stuff
in writing, some by people speaking, as out and around.

And have we discussed self censorship?

The topic of "the" history will be one of the ISCAR sessions. Ought be very
interesting.
Nice that we can still cc vpz!!
mike

On 6/19/08, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:
>
> One thing that Shmeleva omits from her review is that the doctrine produced
> not only efforts to destroy journals and careers, but also lives. According
> to Daniels, Cole, and Wertsch's Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky, in
> Thinking
> and Speech Vygotsky did not reference Gustav Gustavovich Shpet, one of his
> mentors, who was dismissed from his academic positions on multiple
> occasions
> and subjected to "brutal interrogation and execution in 1937" by Soviet
> authorities (Wertsch, CCV, p. 184) due to his "freedom and dignity and the
> independence of his thought from Marxist-Leninist ideology, which at the
> time was growing stronger and stronger" (Zinchenko, CCV, p. 212).
> Presumably
> LSV did not want to antagonize the authorities unnecessarily. Further,
> Shpet's colleague "Mandel'shtam perished in the Gulag a year after Shpet's
> murder" (Zinchenko, CCV, p. 231). I am hopeful that the current regime
> calls
> it quits at trying to force psychologists into their dominant paradigm.
> n.b. My grandparents were from Vygotsky's home town of Gomel and fled to
> the
> US during the pogroms in 1913 and 1916, so I do have some distant relation
> to these forms of repression. And now I live in Bush's America.
>
> Peter Smagorinsky
> The University of Georgia
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
> Behalf Of Mike Cole
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:10 PM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Cc: Brenda Macevicz; Vladimir Zinchenko; Eugene Subbotsky
> Subject: Re: [xmca] Cross-Cultural Psychology Bulletin
>
> I think all should be interested in the chracterization of contemporary
> Russian develppmental
> psychology. Very sobering and fits my observations The division between
> theory and
> practice is Russia power's of reimplemeting the Regime that was Vygotsky et
> al's
> life time experience in new clothing.
>
> It feels like a repitition, but where has the farce gone?
>
> mike
>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hi, while searching for something else, I came across an online version
> of
> > the Cross-Cultural Psychology Bulletin.
> >
> >
> http://www.iaccp.org/bulletin/PDF/web02(1).pdf<
> http://www.iaccp.org/bulletin
> /PDF/web02%281%29.pdf>
> >
> > I thought some of you might be interested either as readers or
> > contributors.
> > Peter
> >
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