VERA A. KOLTSOVA is Head of the Laboratory of the History of Psychology and Historical Psychology of the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.YURI N. OLEINIK is Dean of the faculty of psychology of the Youth Institute in Moscow and senior scientist of the Laboratory of the History of Psychology and Historical Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences.ALBERT R. GILGEN is Professor of Psychology at the University of Northern Iowa and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the American Association of Applied and Preventative Psychology. His most recent book is Chaos Theory in Psychology coedited with Frederick David Abraham (Greenwood Press, 1995).CAROL K. GILGEN has a background in Russian and political science./e She is the coeditor, with her husband Albert Gilgen, of the International Handbook of Psychology (Greenwood Press, 1987).

• PrefaceIntroductory SectionHistorical Background, Analytical Overview and Glossary by Albert R. Gilgen and Carol K. GilgenRussian Psychology at Present by Yuri OleinikIdeological and Scientific Discourse in Soviet Psychological Science by Vera KoltsovaSocial Utopias and Knowledge Construction in Psychology by Jaan ValsinerSocietal Changes and Psychological Theory: The Russian Case by Antti Eskola and Klaus WeckrothPerspectives Focused on the 1985-1994 PeriodSoviet Psychology, Perestroika, and the Human Factor: 1985-1991 by Richard E. RawlesUnderstanding the Other Order of Things by Natsha E. FilatovaThe Institute of Psychology Revisited by David I. Bishop and Robert L. SolsoThe American Psychological Association's Initiatives in the Former Soviet Republic of Russia: Where Do We Go from Here? by Dennis Nissim-SabatRussian Psychology and the "New Capitalism" by Robert L. SolsoMajor Theoretical Viewpoints and Issues: Vygotsky, Rubinstein, Leontiev and OthersMarxism in Soviet Psychology: The Social Role of Russian Science by M. G. YaroshevskyTheory in Soviet Psychology: Major Dynamics by Ksenija Alexandrovna Abulkhanova-Slavskaya and Andrei Vladimirovich BrushlinskyA Chinese Perspective on Leontiev's Theory of Personality by Ye Hao ShengThe Crisis in Psychology and its Russian Dimensions by Dimitar D. VasilevOf Russians and Russia by Karl H. PribramThe Reflection of Soviet Psychology in East German Psychological Practice by William R. Woodward and Steven C. ClarkPerspectives on Specific Fields or Areas of PsychologyComments on the History of Psychoanalysis in Russia by B. TugaybayevaA Social History of Russian Industrial Psychology in the 1920s and 1930s by O. G. NoskovaEthnic Psychology in Soviet Russia by Arkadi MedvedevIs There a Comparative Psychology in the Future of the Former Member Nations of the USSR? by Ethel TobachIndexes

VERA A. KOLTSOVA is Head of the Laboratory of the History of Psychology and Historical Psychology of the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.YURI N. OLEINIK is Dean of the faculty of psychology of the Youth Institute in Moscow and senior scientist of the Laboratory of the History of Psychology and Historical Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences.ALBERT R. GILGEN is Professor of Psychology at the University of Northern Iowa and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the American Association of Applied and Preventative Psychology. His most recent book is Chaos Theory in Psychology coedited with Frederick David Abraham (Greenwood Press, 1995).CAROL K. GILGEN has a background in Russian and political science./e She is the coeditor, with her husband Albert Gilgen, of the International Handbook of Psychology (Greenwood Press, 1987).

• PrefaceIntroductory SectionHistorical Background, Analytical Overview and Glossary by Albert R. Gilgen and Carol K. GilgenRussian Psychology at Present by Yuri OleinikIdeological and Scientific Discourse in Soviet Psychological Science by Vera KoltsovaSocial Utopias and Knowledge Construction in Psychology by Jaan ValsinerSocietal Changes and Psychological Theory: The Russian Case by Antti Eskola and Klaus WeckrothPerspectives Focused on the 1985-1994 PeriodSoviet Psychology, Perestroika, and the Human Factor: 1985-1991 by Richard E. RawlesUnderstanding the Other Order of Things by Natsha E. FilatovaThe Institute of Psychology Revisited by David I. Bishop and Robert L. SolsoThe American Psychological Association's Initiatives in the Former Soviet Republic of Russia: Where Do We Go from Here? by Dennis Nissim-SabatRussian Psychology and the "New Capitalism" by Robert L. SolsoMajor Theoretical Viewpoints and Issues: Vygotsky, Rubinstein, Leontiev and OthersMarxism in Soviet Psychology: The Social Role of Russian Science by M. G. YaroshevskyTheory in Soviet Psychology: Major Dynamics by Ksenija Alexandrovna Abulkhanova-Slavskaya and Andrei Vladimirovich BrushlinskyA Chinese Perspective on Leontiev's Theory of Personality by Ye Hao ShengThe Crisis in Psychology and its Russian Dimensions by Dimitar D. VasilevOf Russians and Russia by Karl H. PribramThe Reflection of Soviet Psychology in East German Psychological Practice by William R. Woodward and Steven C. ClarkPerspectives on Specific Fields or Areas of PsychologyComments on the History of Psychoanalysis in Russia by B. TugaybayevaA Social History of Russian Industrial Psychology in the 1920s and 1930s by O. G. NoskovaEthnic Psychology in Soviet Russia by Arkadi MedvedevIs There a Comparative Psychology in the Future of the Former Member Nations of the USSR? by Ethel TobachIndexes

VERA A. KOLTSOVA is Head of the Laboratory of the History of Psychology and Historical Psychology of the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.YURI N. OLEINIK is Dean of the faculty of psychology of the Youth Institute in Moscow and senior scientist of the Laboratory of the History of Psychology and Historical Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences.ALBERT R. GILGEN is Professor of Psychology at the University of Northern Iowa and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the American Association of Applied and Preventative Psychology. His most recent book is Chaos Theory in Psychology coedited with Frederick David Abraham (Greenwood Press, 1995).CAROL K. GILGEN has a background in Russian and political science./e She is the coeditor, with her husband Albert Gilgen, of the International Handbook of Psychology (Greenwood Press, 1987).

• PrefaceIntroductory SectionHistorical Background, Analytical Overview and Glossary by Albert R. Gilgen and Carol K. GilgenRussian Psychology at Present by Yuri OleinikIdeological and Scientific Discourse in Soviet Psychological Science by Vera KoltsovaSocial Utopias and Knowledge Construction in Psychology by Jaan ValsinerSocietal Changes and Psychological Theory: The Russian Case by Antti Eskola and Klaus WeckrothPerspectives Focused on the 1985-1994 PeriodSoviet Psychology, Perestroika, and the Human Factor: 1985-1991 by Richard E. RawlesUnderstanding the Other Order of Things by Natsha E. FilatovaThe Institute of Psychology Revisited by David I. Bishop and Robert L. SolsoThe American Psychological Association's Initiatives in the Former Soviet Republic of Russia: Where Do We Go from Here? by Dennis Nissim-SabatRussian Psychology and the "New Capitalism" by Robert L. SolsoMajor Theoretical Viewpoints and Issues: Vygotsky, Rubinstein, Leontiev and OthersMarxism in Soviet Psychology: The Social Role of Russian Science by M. G. YaroshevskyTheory in Soviet Psychology: Major Dynamics by Ksenija Alexandrovna Abulkhanova-Slavskaya and Andrei Vladimirovich BrushlinskyA Chinese Perspective on Leontiev's Theory of Personality by Ye Hao ShengThe Crisis in Psychology and its Russian Dimensions by Dimitar D. VasilevOf Russians and Russia by Karl H. PribramThe Reflection of Soviet Psychology in East German Psychological Practice by William R. Woodward and Steven C. ClarkPerspectives on Specific Fields or Areas of PsychologyComments on the History of Psychoanalysis in Russia by B. TugaybayevaA Social History of Russian Industrial Psychology in the 1920s and 1930s by O. G. NoskovaEthnic Psychology in Soviet Russia by Arkadi MedvedevIs There a Comparative Psychology in the Future of the Former Member Nations of the USSR? by Ethel TobachIndexes