• DOI:10.2753/RPO1061-0405480102
• Corpus ID: 142733451

The Vygotsky Family Archive: New Findings

@article{Zavershneva2010TheVF,
  title={The Vygotsky Family Archive: New Findings},
  author={Ekaterina Zavershneva},
  journal={Journal of Russian \& East European Psychology},
  year={2010},
  volume={48},
  pages={34 - 60}
}

• E. Zavershneva
• Published 1 January 2010
• Psychology
• Journal of Russian & East European Psychology

English translation © 2010 M.E. Sharpe, Inc., from the Russian text © 2008 “Voprosy psikhologii.” “Zapisnye knizhki, zametki, nauchnye dnevniki L.S. Vygotskogo (1912–1934): rezul’taty issledovaniia semeinogo arkhiva,” Voprosy psikhologii, 2001, no. 2, pp. 92–102. A publication of the Russian Academy of Education. The author expresses heartfelt gratitude to Gita L’vovna Vygodskaia and Elena Evgen’evna Kravtsova for assistance in working with the archive and for valuable counsel. Translated by Steven Shabad. *In the original, “smyslovoe stroenie soznaniia.” Given the unclarity yet the importance of Vygotsky’s distinction between “smysl” (meaning) and “znachenie” (meaning) and the virtual lack of scientifically rigorous scholarship on Vygotsky’s later—chiefly unpublished—works of 1931–34, this expression is probably one of the least well-developed or even the least understood in Vygotskian studies. We hope this publication gives readers some impression of the dynamic and developmental connotations of Vygotsky’s notion of “smyslovoe stroenie soznaniia” that constitute the most essential category of the third—and last—stage of Vygotsky’s theory of culturalhistorical development of higher mental functions during his lifetime.—Ed. Journal of Russian and East European Psychology, vol. 48, no.1, January–February 2010, pp. 34–60. © 2010 M.E. Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved. ISSN 1061–0405/2010 $9.50 + 0.00. DOI 10.2753/RPO1061-0405480102