Lev Vygotsky
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky was a Russian and Soviet psychologist, best known for his work on psychological development in children and creating the framework known as cultural-historical activity theory. After his early death, his books and research were banned in the Soviet Union until Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, with a first collection of major texts published in 1956. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Vygotsky as the 83rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
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- Born in
- Orsha
- Educated at
- Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityMoscow City People’s University
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Aleksei N. Leontiev📖 Alexander Zaporozhets
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1896
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Birth1934
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