Soviet Russian theoretical psychology refers to the form or branch of psychology that studies the basic theories of psychology in the field of Soviet Russian psychology.
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Soviet Russian psychology generally refers to the Soviet psychology after the October Revolution and the Russian psychology after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Soviet Russian theoretical psychology was gradually formed and developed in the process of critically absorbing Western theoretical psychology. Before the October Revolution, Russian theoretical psychology was deeply influenced by the struggle between materialism and idealism in the field of ideology. Nikolai Yakovlevich Grot, Georgii Ivanovich Chelpanov, and other psychologists insisted on applying the philosophy of spiritualism and the idealism of the speculative school to the study of theoretical psychology, forming the mainstream of idealistic theoretical psychology. Ivan Mikhaillovich Sechenov, Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev, and other...
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Faxiang, Z. (2024). Soviet Russian Theoretical Psychology. In: The ECPH Encyclopedia of Psychology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6000-2_857-1
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