Post-Soviet perspectives on Russian psychology.

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Preface Introductory Section Historical Background, Analytical Overview and Glossary by Albert R. Gilgen and Carol K. Gilgen Russian Psychology at Present by Yuri Oleinik Ideological and Scientific Discourse in Soviet Psychological Science by Vera Koltsova Social Utopias and Knowledge Construction in Psychology by Jaan Valsiner Societal Changes and Psychological Theory: The Russian Case by Antti Eskola and Klaus Weckroth Perspectives Focused on the 1985-1994 Period Soviet Psychology, Perestroika, and the Human Factor: 1985-1991 by Richard E. Rawles Understanding the Other Order of Things by Natsha E. Filatova The Institute of Psychology Revisited by David I. Bishop and Robert L. Solso The American Psychological Association's Initiatives in the Former Soviet Republic of Russia: Where Do We Go from Here? by Dennis Nissim-Sabat Russian Psychology and the "New Capitalism" by Robert L. Solso Major Theoretical Viewpoints and Issues: Vygotsky, Rubinstein, Leontiev and Others Marxism in Soviet Psychology: The Social Role of Russian Science by M. G. Yaroshevsky Theory in Soviet Psychology: Major Dynamics by Ksenija Alexandrovna Abulkhanova-Slavskaya and Andrei Vladimirovich Brushlinsky A Chinese Perspective on Leontiev's Theory of Personality by Ye Hao Sheng The Crisis in Psychology and its Russian Dimensions by Dimitar D. Vasilev Of Russians and Russia by Karl H. Pribram The Reflection of Soviet Psychology in East German Psychological Practice by William R. Woodward and Steven C. Clark Perspectives on Specific Fields or Areas of Psychology Comments on the History of Psychoanalysis in Russia by B. Tugaybayeva A Social History of Russian Industrial Psychology in the 1920s and 1930s by O. G. Noskova Ethnic Psychology in Soviet Russia by Arkadi Medvedev Is There a Comparative Psychology in the Future of the Former Member Nations of the USSR? by Ethel Tobach Indexes