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This chapter by Professor L. A. Venger touches on most of the high points of Soviet developmental theory over the past seven decades. Given the richness of this tradition, his chapter is quite an accomplishment. Venger has managed to summarize a set of major ideas in such a way that readers are not short changed of anything; instead, they are encouraged to read more of the writings cited (several of which are now translated from Russian into other languages). Of particular importance in my opinion is the fact that Venger has gone into some detail on the contributions of psychologists such as Zaporozhets, Elkonin, Poddiakov, and Venger himself. These are authors whose names are familiar to Western audiences, but their work is not as well known as that of figures such as Vygotsky, Leontiev, and Luria. This lacuna in our knowledge is clearly our loss.
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Wertsch, J.V. (1994). Sociocultural Issues in Soviet Psychological Research. In: van Geert, P., Mos, L.P., Baker, W.J. (eds) Annals of Theoretical Psychology. Annals of Theoretical Psychology, vol 10. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9194-5_6
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