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Lev Vygotsky is an author and a researcher in the area of general, developmental and educational psychology.
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Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (real name – Lev Simkhovich Vygodskiy) was born on November 17 (6), 1896 in Orsha (now the territory of Belarus) to the family of the banker Simkha Leibovich Vygodskiy. Vygotsky spent his childhood and youth in Gomel, where he received comprehensive education, first at home, then at a private Jewish gymnasium. In 1913 Vygotsky started to study law at Moscow University; he also attended classes at the faculty of history and philology of Shanyavsky People’s University, where he wrote the Tragedy of Hamlet as a graduate thesis. At the time he was involved in literature and theater, about which he would publish more than eighty reviews. During this period he also was in ideological opposition to Marxism and tried to realize himself in essays on Jewish national politics (Zavershneva and Van der Veer 2018).
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Zavershneva, E., van der Veer, R. (2018). Lev Vygotsky. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2391-1
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