El presente no es actual. Tres visiones de la psicología post-soviética

Abstract

The history of Russian/Soviet psychology is surrounded by controversy. On the one hand are numerous "oficial versions" dating from the Soviet era, with their purely ideological criteria for interpreting empirical data, and, on the other, western accounts written in the style of the traveller's books of the Romantic era -uneven, rather superjicial, and without any great concern for impartiality. The search for the foundations of Russian/Soviet psychology, and the need for a western historiography contextualized in the frame of reference from which it extracts its concepts, can be seen as tke point of convergence of the current concerns of psychologists and historians of the field. This article contains three interviews with Russian psychologists and historians of Russian/Soviet psychology, discussing its past, present and future. The comments include evaluations of Soviet psychology and its development over the past decade in a new socio-political context, identifying the most promising approaches and schools.