November 5, 1896 Born in the town of Orsha, Belarus, in the Russian Empire , into a non-religious middle class Jewish family
Vygotsky was admitted to the Moscow State University through a "Jewish Lottery" to meet a three percent Jewish student quota for entry in Moscow and Saint Petersberg universities - Studied law and attended hanyavskii People’s University"
Vygotsky was an active participant of major social transformation under the Bolshevik rule and a fairly prominent representative of the Bolshevik government in Gomel from 1919 to 1923.
He began his career at the Psychological Institute as a "staff scientist, second class". Vygotsky completed his dissertation in 1925 on "The Psychology of Art" (not published until 1960s) and a book "Pedagogical Psychology". He made his first and only trip abroad to a London congress on the education of the deaf.
In 1926-30 Vygotsky worked on a research programme investigating the development of higher cognitive functions of logical memory, selective attention, decision making and language comprehension, from early forms of primal psychological functions.
In early 1930s Vygotsky experienced deep crisis, personal and theoretical, and after a period of massive self-criticism made an attempt at a radical revision of his theory. In 1932-1934 Vygotsky was aiming at establishing a psychological theory of consciousness, but this theory remained only in a very sketchy and unfinished form
Obituary for Lev Vygotsky, by Alexander Luria: The scientific world of the Soviet Union has lost one of her brilliant men. Professor L. S. Vygotsky, leading Russian psychologist died of consumption on June 11, 1934, at the age of thirty-eight.
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