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28.01.2010  Formation or deformation? (about Soviet "socialism" without nostalgia) The report with reflection about social and political nature of Soviet "socialism" will
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17.12.2009  Today, 17 of December in Zoological museum of MSU in 6 p.m. will take place my lecture "Principle of activity in biology and psychology"
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27.19.2009  An artile of my young associate and son George Surmava From "Swain" to "Pragmatist" is
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Articles

1. THE PRINCIPLES OF REFLECTIVE THEORY OF ACTIVITY. (In Russian) Download
 Manuscript. 1988-2004. Monographic research started with the attempt to clear up the theoretic meaning of “irritability” and “sensitivity” and led the author to full revision of theoretic definition of “life”, “psyche” and “consciousness”.   
2. THE THESES (In Russian) View Download
 2003 An attempt to set out " The Principles..." in short I mean even less uderstandable form.  
3. TO THE THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING OF LIFE AND PSYCHE (In Russian) View Download
 An article published in "Voprosi Philosofii@ #4, 2003. Contains a rather short scetch of "The Principles..."   
4. PSYCHOLOGICAL MEANING OF A HISTORICAL CRISIS (AN ATTEMPT AT HISTORICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS) (In Russian) View Download
 The author presents his own view of the current crisis of Russian psychology and ways of overcoming it, putting forward a conception according to which the only internationally recognized Russian psychological school — that of Vygotsky — was based on the theory of K. Marx's materialist monism and cannot be adequately interpreted outside of the logic of that theory. Rejection of that logic is equal to rejection of the theoretical heritage of the cultural-activity school. As other psychological schools had no historical roots in Russia, this rejection will exclude national academic psychology from the scientific process for many years. Considering the increased interest in the world towards the ideas of the cultural-activity school, the author views the above prospect as highly irrational.  
5. TO THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF THE PSYCHO-PHYSICAL PROBLEM (In Russian) View Download
 Manuscript. 1981. The article deals with the socio-historical roots the psycho-physical dualism in modern physiology and psychology. Was recommended for publication in "Voprosi psikhologii" by V.V.Davidov, but rejected by soviet political censorship.  
6. MY ANSWER TO CHAMBERLAINS (In Russian) Download
 My lecture, "discussion" and my subsequent comments.  
7. The idea of reflectivity in theoretical psychology. (In Russian) Download
 Ph.D. thesis  
8. ABSTRACT (In Russian) Download
 Abstract of my PH.D. thesis  
9. THE NEW DEFINITION OF PSYCHE BASED ON IDEAS OF SPINOZA, VYGOTSKY AND ILYENKOV (In English) View Download
   
10. PRESENTATION (in English) Download
 Presentation of my report in the first ISCAR congress in Seville  
11. Curriculum (In Russian) (or how one gets a psychologist) View Download
 Essay  
12. ONE AND A HALF KILOGRAMMES OF BRAINS OR AN ALIVE THINKING BODY (In Russian) Download
 An article for "Voprosy psihologii" (¹1, 2006) based on my report at "5-th L.S.Vygotsky readings conference" 11.10.2004.   
13. About the correlation of theory and methodology or "A fair tale about Redhat and Grey Wolf" (In Russian) View Download
   
14. Life psyche consciousness (In English.) Download
 The article with short scetch of reflecsive theopy of activity. Accepted by "Russian an East European Psychology Journal"   
15. PRESENTATION (In Russian) Download
 Presentation of my report in the first ISCAR congress in Seville  
16. Il'enkov and revolution in psychology (In Russian ) Download
 About Evald Il'enkov and its revolutionary role in the history of psychology.  
17. Psycholigy and dialectic - the drama of creation Download
 Thó theoretic reflection upon the newly published manuscript of Vygotsky. The Russian publication of mentioned manuscripts are available in the "Archive" http://www.voxnet.ru/~monada/archive.php?lng=eng   
18. TO THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF THE PSYCHO-PHYSICAL PROBLEM (In English) Download
 Manuscript. 1981. The article deals with the socio-historical roots the psycho-physical dualism in modern physiology and psychology. Was recommended for publication in "Voprosi psikhologii" by V.V.Davidov, but rejected by soviet political censorship.  
19. Report on Ilyenkov's seminar Download
 Report on Ilyenkov's seminar in MSU February 18, 2009  
20. From "swain" to "prgmatist" George and Alexander Surmava Download
 An essey in historical and cultural analysis of our schooling system.