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The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
psychologist and philosopher who lived in the Ukraine until 1918. Blonsky was one of the main theorists of Soviet paedology and introduced the Behaviorism, behaviorist approach in Russian psychology (under the label "objective Marxist
Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...
psychology"). After the publication of the anti-paedology decree "On Paedological Distortions in the System of People’s Commissariat of Education" psychological testing
Psychological testing is the administration of psychological tests. Psychological tests are administered by trained evaluators. A person's responses are evaluated according to carefully prescribed guidelines. Scores are thought to reflect individ ...
and studies of inborn capabilities (which contradicted the official Soviet ideology of "inborn equality of all people").[Уткин Анатолий Валерьевич]
"ИССЛЕДОВАТЕЛЬ ИСКЛЮЧИТЕЛЬНОГО ДАРОВАНИЯ: К ЮБИЛЕЮ ПАВЛА ПЕТРОВИЧА БЛОНСКОГО (1884-1941)"
''Историко-педагогический журнал'', no. 3, 2019
in a viewerabbreviated text
[Mihail Gerasimovich Danilchenko]
"Pavel Petrovich Blonsky"
Prospects 23, 113–124 (1993), [Сергей СТЕПАНОВ]
Life and work
Blonsky was born to a petty szlachta
The ''szlachta'' (Polish: endonym, Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who, as a class, had the dominating position in t ...
family, an official of ("Дворянская опека") Peter (Zygmunt) Błoński (Петр (Сигизмунд) Матвеевич Блонский) of mixed Spanish-Polish-Russian-Ukrainian ancestry. [
Blonsky's search for a new psychology began with the condemnation of ]philosophical idealism
In philosophy, the term idealism identifies and describes metaphysical perspectives which assert that reality is indistinguishable and inseparable from perception and understanding; that reality is a mental construct closely connected to ide ...
that he - the specialist in Plato
Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution ...
and neo-Platonism
Neoplatonism is a strand of Platonic philosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD against the background of Hellenistic philosophy and religion. The term does not encapsulate a set of ideas as much as a chain of thinkers. But there are some ide ...
- now considered to be clearly irreconcilable with "normal common sense".
Published works
* Задачи и методы народной школы (1916)
Философия Плотина
(1918)
Проблема реальности у Беркли.
Киев, 1907.
** ''Блонский П. П.'' Проблема реальности у Беркли. М.: Книжный дом « ЛИБРОКОМ», 2009. — 160 с. (Из наследия мировой философской мысли: история философии.)
* Современная философия, т. 1-2 (1918—1922)
* Трудовая школа (1919)
* Реформа науки (1920)
* Очерк научной психологии (1921)
* Психологические очерки (1927)
* Очерки детской сексуальности (1928)
* Педология (1934)
Память и мышление
(1935, переиздана в 2001)
К проблеме воспоминания.
М., Директмедиа Паблишинг, 2008.
* Развитие мышления школьника (1935)
* Избранные педагогические произведения, — М., 1961;
* Избранные психологические произведения. — М., 1964;
* Избранные педагогические и психологические сочинения. Т. 1-2. — М., 1979.
Психологический анализ припоминания
М., Директмедиа Паблишинг, 2008.
References
Ukrainian psychologists
Soviet psychologists
1884 births
1941 deaths
Imperial Moscow University alumni
20th-century psychologists
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