‘An indispensable volume for the intellectual project of coming to terms with Vygotsky’s theory and adapting it to current problems in new contexts’. – Peter Smagorinsky, The University of Georgia, USA

Anton Yasnitsky is research associate at University of Toronto, Canada, specialising in Vygotskian Studies and cultural-historical developmental psychology , history of human, behavioral and psychoneurological sciences, anthropology of Soviet/Russian/East European culture(s), history, mechanisms, and strategies of transnational scientific research

Rene van der Veer is Professor at Leiden, Department of Education and Child Studies, the Netherlands. Main research interests include Cultural historical theory, Attachment, History of ideas

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