Rene van der Veer has taught at the Free University of Amsterdam and the University of Leiden, where he is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Education. Jaan Valsiner has been teaching developmental psychology and pursuing collaborative research at a number of different universities in Europe, the USA, Australia and Brazil, since his departure from the Soviet Union in 1980. For the last decade he has been a faculty member of the Developmental Psychology Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

"This is certainly the most comprehensive intellectual biography of Vygotsky that exists in English, and probably in any language. Moreover, it is likely to remain the standard reference in this field for a long time to come." Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences

• Illustrations viiPreface viiiIntroduction 1 Part I The First Years in Moscow 1924-1928Introduction 48Part II The Cultural-Historical Theory 1928-1932Introduction 183Part III Moscow, Kharkov and Leningrad 1932-1934Introduction 287Epilogue 390References 401Index of Names 441Index of Subjects 449

Rene van der Veer has taught at the Free University of Amsterdam and the University of Leiden, where he is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Education. Jaan Valsiner has been teaching developmental psychology and pursuing collaborative research at a number of different universities in Europe, the USA, Australia and Brazil, since his departure from the Soviet Union in 1980. For the last decade he has been a faculty member of the Developmental Psychology Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

"This is certainly the most comprehensive intellectual biography of Vygotsky that exists in English, and probably in any language. Moreover, it is likely to remain the standard reference in this field for a long time to come." Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences

• Illustrations viiPreface viiiIntroduction 1 Part I The First Years in Moscow 1924-1928Introduction 48Part II The Cultural-Historical Theory 1928-1932Introduction 183Part III Moscow, Kharkov and Leningrad 1932-1934Introduction 287Epilogue 390References 401Index of Names 441Index of Subjects 449

Rene van der Veer has taught at the Free University of Amsterdam and the University of Leiden, where he is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Education. Jaan Valsiner has been teaching developmental psychology and pursuing collaborative research at a number of different universities in Europe, the USA, Australia and Brazil, since his departure from the Soviet Union in 1980. For the last decade he has been a faculty member of the Developmental Psychology Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

"This is certainly the most comprehensive intellectual biography of Vygotsky that exists in English, and probably in any language. Moreover, it is likely to remain the standard reference in this field for a long time to come." Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences

• Illustrations viiPreface viiiIntroduction 1 Part I The First Years in Moscow 1924-1928Introduction 48Part II The Cultural-Historical Theory 1928-1932Introduction 183Part III Moscow, Kharkov and Leningrad 1932-1934Introduction 287Epilogue 390References 401Index of Names 441Index of Subjects 449