lev semyonovich vygotsky

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v. born Nov. 5, 1896, Orsha, Russia died June 11, 1934, Moscow Soviet psychologist. He studied linguistics and philosophy at the University of Moscow before becoming involved in psychological research. While working at Moscow's Institute of Psychology (1924-34), he became a major figure in post-revolutionary Soviet psychology. He studied the role of social and cultural factors in the making of human consciousness; his theory of signs and their relationship to the development of speech influenced psychologists such as A.R. Luria and Jean Piaget. His best-known work, Thought and Language (1934), was briefly suppressed as a threat to Stalinism

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Lev semyonovich vygotsky