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Trotsky art and revolution5/26/2023 But Trotsky's influence is still detectable sub rosa even in Vygotsky's 1930 essay " The Socialist Alteration of Man" (discussed in an earlier review). And when Vygotsky's dissertation was published in the USSR in the mid-1960s, his quote of Trotsky was excised. By February 1929, he had been exiled from the Soviet Union. And what would be safer than quoting the scholarship of one of the leaders of the Revolution?īy 1927, Trotsky had lost his struggle with Stalin and been removed from power. So Trotsky's 1923 book Literature and Revolution-published before Stalin consolidated power, a year before Lenin's death, and a year before Vygotsky's invitation to join the Psychological Institute in Moscow-made a deep impact on Vygotsky and was incorporated and quoted in the dissertation, defended just two years later. Like Vygotsky, Trotsky was a Jewish intellectual whose fortunes had dramatically improved through the 1917 Revolution, one who was enthralled with literature. However, Lev Vygotsky had a deep interest in the subject, which was the topic of his dissertation The Psychology of Art (which says was written 1917, but defended in 1925). I confess that I have zero interest in literature. (The link goes to Amazon, but you can also find this book at, from where I copied and pasted the quotes.)
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