Bibliography of L. S. Vygotsky

In Russian: 1. Soznaniye kak problema psikhologii povedeniya [Consciousness as a problem of the psychology of behavior]. In Psikhologiya i marksizm. Leningrad-Moscow, 1925.     

L.S. Vygotsky and the Theater

The article presents the analysis of L.S. Vygotsky's works dedicated to the theater arts and is organized according Vygotsky's different life and work stages. Meanwhile special attention is paid to the Gomel period during which a large number of reviews were written by Vygotsky and published in “Nash ponedel'nik” and “Polesskaia pravda” newspapers. Biographical facts are widely used in this analysis and help to clarify Vygotsky's interest in art. It is shown that even at the beginning of his oeuvre, he was interested not only in a range of problems in art, but also psychological problems related to art perception and creativeness. Vygotsky's usage of structural concept ideas about the peculiar properties of literary text composition are also explored. Vygotsky analyzes the socio-psychological mechanisms of theatrical art effect. Furthermore, those areas which are widely used by Vygotsky in determining the characteristics of cast reincarnation are examined. Special emphasis is placed on the different elements of the actor techniques (speech, movement, emotional expression, acting personality and etc.). Materials are widely used in this study and help identify the socio-cultural context that defined Vygotsky's values at different stages of his work, related to his drama criticism and his formation as a professional psychologist.     

L.S. Vygotsky: In Memoriam

On the night of 11 June, death took from the ranks of our country's outstanding scientists Professor Lev Semenovich Vygotsky. In him Soviet psychology has lost not only a great scientist and brilliant educator, not only a person with remarkable personal qualities, but also one of those people whose appearance in our science has been of tremendous importance for its development, whose life and death are as much a part of the history of psychological knowledge as of his personal biography. Indeed, the system of theoretical psychological ideas Vygotsky created requires an understanding of the biography of its creator to be fully grasped. Yet the opposite is also true: only analysis of this system can provide the real key to understanding the personality of the deceased.