Introduction
In the Soviet period, Russian psychological thought has been full of delights and disappointments. Though keeping a citizen in jail for philosophical and psychological worldview was a normal case in Soviet reality, traditions of psychological thought in the Soviet Union occurred to be pluralistically rich: Physiological Behaviorism of Ivan P. Pavlov (1849–1936), Cultural-historical Theory of Lev S. Vygotsky (1896–1934), Psychoanalytical Neuropsychology of Alexander R. Luria (1902–1977), Existential Psychology based on Mikhail M. Bakhtin’s (1895–1975) philological traditions, Alexsei N. Leontiev’s (1903–1979) Activity Theory based on the principles of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
It was the Christmas Day of 1991, that the USSR, born in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, split into 15 independent republics. Russian Federation was the most influential and important one among the successors of the Soviet Union as well as the one that inherited the right to own the...
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Jeshmaridian, S. (2012). Post-Soviet Psychology. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0463-8_300
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