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L.S. Vygotsky was a Soviet thinker, teacher, and writer who worked in psychology, education, and the holistic science of child development then called pedology. In a short career of only a decade, he created works that transformed the way we connect history, culture, and human development today. Nikolai Veresov is currently an associate professor at Monash University. He was a researcher in Finland and in Russia, where he studied psychology with leading lights of the cultural historical school such as V.V. Davydov. He has published widely on Vygotsky in many languages, including Vygotsky's native language; he is currently an editor of the Cultural Historical Research book series with Springer. His current work is on education of early years in Australia. He is the translator of Vygotsky's "Consciousness as Problem in the Psychology of Behavior" (1999) and "The Role of Play in the Development of the Child (2016)". He has also translated the work of D. B. Elkonin on periodizing child development. (2000). David Kellogg is currently an assistant professor at Sangmyung University. He is the author of over fifty articles in international journals on cultural-historical psychology, systemic-functional linguistics, and teaching/learning, He and his former students have published twelve volumes of Vygotsky translations in Korea.

Zusammenfassung
Presents a theoretical work originally written in the 1920s, long believed to be lost, by a Soviet psychologist. He responds to the proliferation of different schools within the field with the formulation of a unified theory based on Marxism. For scholars in psychology and the history of psychology.

Inhalt
Some Major Themes in Vygotsky's Theoretical Work. An Introduction.- On Vygotsky's Creative Development.- 1: Problems of the Theory and Methods of Psychology.- 1: The Methods of Reflexological and Psychological Investigation.- 2: Preface to Lazursky.- 3: Consciousness as a Problem for the Psychology of Behavior.- 4: Apropos Koffka's Article on Self-Observation (Instead of a Preface).- 5: The Instrumental Method in Psychology.- 6: On Psychological Systems.- 7: Mind, Consciousness, the Unconscious.- 8: Preface to Leont'ev.- 9: The Problem of Consciousness.- 10: Psychology and the Theory of Localization of Mental Functions.- 2: Developmental Paths of Psychological Knowledge.- 11: Preface to Thorndike.- 12: Preface to Bühler.- 13: Preface to Köhler.- 14: Preface to Koffka.- 15: The Historical Meaning of the Crisis in Psychology: A Methodological Investigation.- Epilogue.- Notes to the English Edition.- Notes to the Russian Edition.- References.- Author Index.