Central Asian Psychology
Psychology in Central Asia can serve as a good example of the aphorism of Hermann Ebbinghaus: Psychology has a long past and a short history. The long past is the folk psychology of Kyrgyzstan and the nomads of Central Asia. The short history is the major borrowings from Russia. For much of the twentieth century the Central Asian republics were under the domination of Russia or the Soviet Union. The republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan were part of the Soviet Union from the 1920s until 1990. 
 
 
Keywords: 
 
cultural psychology; 
international psychology; 
indigenous psychology
From Vygotsky to Vygotskian psychology: introduction to the history of the Kharkov School.
Around the end of the 1920s, Vygotsky introduced his integrative framework for psycho-logical research to the Soviet Union. This framework was not abandoned and forgotten until its rediscovery in Russia and America in the 1950s, as some claim. In fact, even after his untimely death in 1934, Vygotsky remained the spiritual leader of a group of his for-mer students and collaborators, who became known as the Kharkov School. This paper reconstructs the early intellectual history of Vygotskian psychology, as it emerged, around the time of Vygotsky's death, in the research program of the Kharkov School.
An interview with P.Ya. Gal'perin
I was born on October 2nd, 1902, in Tambov. At that time Tambov was a large governmental city in the European part of Russia, approximately 300 miles southeast of Moscow. My father was an Ear, Nose, and Throat specialist. Later he became a professor in Khar'kov, then still the capital of the Ukraine. My mother's parents also lived there. In 1911 we moved. In Khar'kov I went through grammar school, the only coeducational one in the whole of Russia. Tamara Izrail'evna, whom I later married, was in the same class.1