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From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky’s work
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This article connects linguistic, theoretical, and methodological aspects of Stanislavski’s work with Vygotsky’s quest to develop a new psychology.
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This historical/conceptual article argues that Vygotsky’s psychological theory, especially his late work, was shaped by his early theater criticism and his engagement with Stanislavski’s acting system and the GAKhN psychology-of-the-actor circle. It traces shared vocabulary and concepts to suggest Stanislavski’s practical system informed Vygotsky’s theoretical program.
Key findings
- Vygotsky’s theater writing drew on Stanislavskian language; the authors count 14 mentions of Stanislavski in available reviews, notes, and lectures from 1917–1924, and note that Vygotsky wrote over 80 essays in Gomel, mostly theatrical reviews.
- Liubov Gurevich consulted Vygotsky in 1929 about Stanislavski’s terminology, alongside Chelpanov and Ekzemplyarsky; Vygotsky also had access to an extended draft of *An Actor’s Work* before his later reformulation of psychology.
- The article identifies conceptual parallels between Stanislavski and Vygotsky: action as primary, an action–belief–truth sequence, super-objective/supertask, through-action, *perezhivanie*, and “bits and tasks” as an analytical unit.
- It argues that Vygotsky’s “crisis in psychology” and his later unified psychophysiological approach resemble Stanislavski’s system, with GAKhN collaborations as a key intellectual context.
Methods
- Historical and conceptual analysis using archival evidence, close readings of translated Vygotsky texts, Stanislavski’s *An Actor’s Work* in Benedetti’s translation, and secondary scholarship.
- Sources include Vygotsky’s theater reviews, GAKhN-related records, correspondence, and later psychological writings; there is no empirical sample or statistical analysis.
- The authors synthesize biographical and textual connections to support their interpretive argument about influence.
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- The paper does not state limitations. Evident from the text: the argument is interpretive and relies on circumstantial archival links; hedges such as “we argue,” “may have,” and “likely” indicate that direct causal influence cannot be proven.
- Translation and archival constraints are evident: the authors note that translations may sacrifice style for fidelity, that Russian originals are provided only when needed, and that the analysis depends on available archives.
- No empirical data, systematic coding, or tests of alternative explanations are presented.
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“He maintained these collaborative ties as his work progressed into the 1930s.”
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“To our knowledge, Vygotsky mentions Stanislavski in 14 instances in his theater reviews, notes, and lectures that are available in existing archives between the years of 1917 and 1924 at the time of this publication (Sobkin, 2015).”
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“In these reviews, the young Vygotsky explored the psychological aspects of character development and stage direction, drawing on the ideas of Stanislavki.”
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“However, it should be noted that even during his time as a theater critic, Vygotsky addressed these designations for aspects of productions in purely psychological terms (Sobkin & Klimova, 2018).”
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“There is direct evidence that Gurevich consulted Vygotsky on the manuscript to check Stanislavski's terminology in 1929, immediately before Vygotsky experienced his personal and professional crisis, culminating in a radical reformulation of his theory.”
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“He maintained connections with GAKhN faculty well into the 1930s.”
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“Vygotsky frequently attended presentations at the Theater Section throughout the 1920s (Gudkova, 2019).”
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“This is referenced in a letter from Gurevich to Stanislavski found in Volume 10 of a journal called Minuvshee (Минувшее; A. Lin, personal communication, March 11, 2021):”
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“Perhaps the most important influence was Stanislavski himself.”
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“In this article, we argue that Vygotsky's early experiences as a theater critic and exposure to the work of Stanislavski and the MAT influenced his later work as a psychologist.”
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“Vygotsky had access to Stanislavski's (1936) theater textbook, as edited by Gurevich (the most relevant and comprehensive version of his work, not generally available even in Russia prior to 1936).”
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“Vygotsky began to publish his ideas on a new human psychology in 1925.”
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“Vygotsky was born into a large family in the city of Orsha and spent his youth in the city of Gomel at the height of the Silver Age, a period in Russian history characterized by a cultural blossoming in the domains of the arts, especially theater (Rubtsova & Daniels, 2016).”
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“While in Gomel, he maintained his working relationship with the theater, writing over 80 essays, the majority of which were theatrical reviews published in the Nash ponedel'nik (Наш понедельник) and Polesskaia pravda (Полесская правда) newspapers (Sobkin & Klimova, 2018;Yasnitsky, 2012).”
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“The subsection was chaired by Stanislavski's editor, Liubov Gurevich.”
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“Earlier, Vygotsky developed pieces with the GAKhN Psychology of Acting faculty, including Shklovsky, Iakobson, and Eikhenbaum.These were published in the journal Zhizn' iskusstva (Жизнь искусства) between the years 1918 and 1922.”
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“Vygotsky left Gomel to be a theater critic in Moscow, particularly at MAT (Lowe, 2009).He inevitably came into contact with the tight community around MAT, including Gurevich.”
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“Vygotsky was familiar with the famous Russian theatrical directors Konstantin Stanislavski and Vsevolod Meyerhold, was close friends with the literary critic Yuri Aykhenvald (who oversaw Vygotsky's dissertation on Stanislavski's 1912 production of Hamlet), and attended a reading group with the renowned Soviet Acmeist poet Osip Mandelstam-whom he quotes at the beginning of Chapter 7 of Thinking and”
§ From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky's work > Individual history, social history, and volition in the development of Vygotsky's theory
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“The Soviet psychologist L. S. Vygotsky was immersed in theater and the arts through much of his life, collaborating with scholars of the psychology of acting, including Konstantin Stanislavski's close confidante and long-time editor Liubov Gurevich, on terms and theories expressed in his historically defining text, An Actor's Work.”
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“In 1926, Vygotsky entered the Zhakarino hospital in Moscow with tuberculosis.”
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“Stanislavski came to recognize that he was restricting the possibilities of an actor in varied roles by treating prior life experience as definitive.It was one of the reasons why he moved to the concept of action as not only the product of emotional memory and social history, but also generative and forward-looking.”
§ From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky's work > Perhaps Vygotsky's most well-known borrowing from Stanislavski is the concept of perezhivanie (переживание, pronounced pe-re-zhe-vah-ni-e).
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“This article connects linguistic, theoretical, and methodological aspects of Stanislavski's work with Vygotsky's quest to develop a new psychology, finding its apogee in the works of his final years, especially after he gained access to an extended draft of Stanislavski's chapters.”
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“Vygotsky exchanged ideas with these scholars.We argue that these experiences informed his thinking and the development of his later ideas.”
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“While his ideas and methods for the study of human consciousness are often seen as groundbreaking and revolutionary in the field of psychology, it is important to consider that Vygotsky's theories did not develop in a vacuum.”
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“Vygotsky drew terms and acting devices coined by Stanislavski in the theatrical critiques he published in Moscow and Gomel.These terms and concepts later resurfaced in his publications as a psychologist.”
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“Vygotsky's relationship to Stanislavski and MAT was not only defined by the historical moment (although we believe both Vygotsky and Stanislavski would say that was enough to put his scholarly activities into a specific context).It was also defined by the way Vygotsky began to use the language of MAT to express his thinking.”
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“We suggest that Vygotsky's lifelong fascination with theater, and his exposure to Stanislavski's theory on (the psychology of) acting, made critical contributions to his thinking as he struggled to reformulate his understanding of psychology and the human condition.”
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“It is believed that Vygotsky wrote a draft of The Historical Meaning of the Crisis in Psychology or at least laid out the intellectual groundwork for his thinking during this stay (Hyman, 2012).”
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“Reading the early chapters of An Actor’s Work (Stanislavski, 2008) around 1929-1930 may have finally congealed Vygotsky’s thinking on this alternative approach to psychology.”
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“Vygotsky used a similar approach and terminology as he posed nascent approaches to psychology.”
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“In order to authentically play a role, Stanislavski believed that one had to understand the volition, goals, ecological setting, and affect (ultimately, the psychological unity of the character).”
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“Action within the context of perezhivanie is culturally situated and typically includes cooperation with others (Glassman et al., 2023).”
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“Functions of thought, speech, memory, and affect are seen as part of a whole.”
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“He worked closely with Gurevich and other GAKhN academics such as Pavel Iakobson and N. I. Zhinkin to refine his ideas and develop what he called the psychology of acting.”
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“Vygotsky used this method of analysis to pose nascent solutions to many of the problems of psychology that vexed his contemporaries.”
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“Indeed, they complement one another, with Stanislavski's An Actor's Work serving as the praxis and Vygotsky's work serving as the theory.”
§ From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky's work > Perhaps Vygotsky's most well-known borrowing from Stanislavski is the concept of perezhivanie (переживание, pronounced pe-re-zhe-vah-ni-e).
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“Vygotsky’s time in the theater and his connections with the scholars at GAKhN might have influenced his conclusion that existing explanations of thought, word, and action (human consciousness) were flawed, not least because they ignored the roles of volition and affect in a unified perspective of human behavior (action and thinking as integrated).”
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“Vygotsky never published this work in his lifetime, but he outlined his ideas for a new dialectical psychology and a program of research (van der Veer & Valsiner, 1994).”
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“Here, Vygotsky not only notes that human development is the product of shared action and experience, but also-a deviation from the existing psychological theories of his time-places action as primary in both the moderation and articulation of human thought.”
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- Not matchedcites Vygotsky, 1931/1997a
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“A fundamental characteristic of Stanislavski’s (2008) system of developing the actor’s psychotechnique to authentically portray a role is the concept that action is the primary source from which all true playing and “true being” emerge.”
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“Speech-both the meaning of the words and the tones and sounds-is a unified expression of the subject's psychological state.”
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- Not matchedcites Vygotsky, 1934/1987b
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“To be authentic, he claimed that all action must adhere to the following criteria: (a) flow in a logical sequence; (b) be inwardly well founded; and (c) be plausible in the real world.”
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“For both Stanislavski and Vygotsky, action is the manifestation of thinking in the moment-emotional history influenced by the setting and the actions of others-starting with the volition to solve a problem, becoming belief that the action will solve that problem, and evolving into truth, which can set the context for working through future, similar problems.”
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“This concept broadly aligns with Vygotsky's (1987a) later ideas on education and psychology, with his work placing action as the genesis whence all human consciousness emerges on both the external and internal planes.”
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“Human activity is the key to understanding this system, articulated in specific actions that tie back to a goal and a motive (Glassman, 1996)”
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- Not matchedcites Glassman, 1996
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“The [bit] is a vital and irreducible part of the whole.”
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“The sounds of the words as spoken not only alter the meaning but also represent the most basic component of a task.”
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“previous studies of the word in human thought analyzed meaning and sound separately (Vygotsky, 1932(Vygotsky, /1999)).”
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“The goal was to truly experience a role, and thereby portray the character and the larger production realistically through actions.”
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“Vygotsky voiced the same critique of early 20th-century psychologists as Stanislavski had of theater directors and actors of his era-they were focusing on the result and not the action.”
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“Reminiscent of Stanislavski’s system, both internal thought and physical actions are an integrated expression of the subject’s or character’s psychological state; the goal of the actor or psychologist is to understand how external actions are material manifestations of this state.”
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“Within this framework, Vygotsky created a new scientific basis for understanding the ontological development of humans that in many ways mirrors Stanislavski’s work.”
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“Vygotsky defined a bit as a product of analysis that possesses all the basic characteristics of the whole [emphasis added].”
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- Not matchedcites Vygotsky, 1934/1987b
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“In the same manner as Stanislavski's system, Vygotsky's methodology posited external action as the point of origin for understanding behavior and sought to separate actions into bits to analyze their internal subtext.”
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“Players used what Stanislavski referred to as the “bits and tasks” method to understand their character’s overall motives, analyze the character’s external actions, and then take those actions onstage, moving past beliefs to truth through the cooperative work of the troupe.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Stanislavski, 2008 source
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“development is enmeshed with an immediate environment that functions within the broader social-historical setting(s).”
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“A recurring theme throughout Vygotsky’s (1934Vygotsky’s ( /1987bVygotsky’s ( , 1931Vygotsky’s ( /1997a) work that we continue to develop as psychologists is the theory that all higher mental functions are social-their development and externalization is moderated by accumulated experiences.”
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- Not matchedcites Vygotsky, 1934/1987b
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“The only way to understand human actions and thinking is to observe actions, reduce them to their smallest constituent bits, and then work backwards toward emotional memory and volition/motive.”
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“We argue that, in 1926, he was only a few years removed from immersion in the theater and collaborations with scholars at GAKhN.”
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“Vygotsky (1934Vygotsky ( /1987b) ) explains in Thinking and Speech that analysis into bits allows investigators to clearly understand the reciprocal relationship between a subject's needs, desires, and activity.”
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- Not matchedcites Vygotsky, 1934/1987b
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“Other schools studied mental functions in isolation, for the most part ignoring affect and volition in studies of the intellect.”
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“Stanislavski was also central in bringing the role of affective memory as integrated into human thought and action”
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“Vygotsky's early life experiences, academic collaborations outside of the psychological sciences, and exposure to the manuscript of Stanislavski's (2008) An Actor's Work likely shaped his later thinking and research as a psychologist.”
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“may not have started with Stanislavski, but he and his colleagues at MAT were among the first to systematize these ideas.”
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“Stanislavski was among the first to explore the idea of action as primary and that all thinking in some way follows from these complex actions.”
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“We feel it is important to remember that neither Vygotsky nor Stanislavski came up with these ideas over just a couple of years; they certainly did not develop them in isolation.”
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“an idea we believe is a core component of Vygotsky's late model for a new type of psychology”
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“His notes suggest the psychology of the actor came slowly and painfully, accompanied by failure, as new ideas often are.”
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“Stanislavski's manuscript and the work being done at GAKhN were central to Vygotsky's attempts to turn psychology in a new direction.”
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“Stanislavski explored and experimented with his psychology of the actor over decades, interacting with luminaries such as Chekhov, Bulgakov, Nemirovich, Craig, Bernhardt, and, later, Meyerhold in the theater; Tolstoy as he turned from realism to mysticism later in life; Gurevich; and other stalwarts in the Russian symbolist movement.”
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“Gurevich was a major intellectual force of the times (and, like Vygotsky, considered herself as the other because of her Jewish heritage).”
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“However, both Stanislavski and Vygotsky use the same source Russian term and, more importantly, the same application of the term and conceptual approach to understanding human activity.”
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“The idea of motive as an overarching force in human behavior and goal orientation as a context for activity, which has had a major impact on psychology far beyond cultural-historical activity theory”
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“We suggest that Vygotsky, absorbed with theater in general and Stanislavski's work in particular through a large part of his life, recognized the possibilities that the psychology of the actor offered in solving what he viewed as the crisis in psychology.”
§ From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky's work > Conclusion
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In the paper
“We suggest that his collaboration with these scholars shaped Vygotsky's approach to psychology, and some of the core concepts and nomenclature found in his later work.”
§ From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky's work > Conclusion
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§ From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky's work > Action as primary
“For Stanislavski (and for Vygotsky, as we will explain in the next section), human agency flows through the following trajectory: action, belief, and truth.”
§ From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky's work > Action as primary
“When internal and external belief and truth are present, impulse for action automatically emerges, followed by externalized action itself.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Pelfrey, G. L., Glassman, M., Kuznetcova, I., & Tilak, S.
- Affiliations
- The Ohio State University (US)
- Akita International University (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Pelfrey, G. Logan
- Venue
- Theory & Psychology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2023-11-03
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 67-89
- ISSN
- 0959-3543 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7447
- OpenAlex
- W4388292051
- Semantic Scholar
- b3ba3ea737d45b686ed296b895c4fa99f14a0bdf
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 26
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2
- FWCI
- 11.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Theory & Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Theatre and Performance Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Psychology of Development and Education
- Social Sciences › Psychology › General Psychology › Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Keywords
- Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vygotsky, Soviet theatre, history of psychology, archival sources
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