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The Study of Man: The Mind of Man: Soviet View
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IN 1946 the Central Committee of the Russian Communist party called upon Soviet psychology “to expose the reactionary character of psychological theories now current in America and Western Europe, to free itself of all harmful foreign influences and to imbue its scientific work with a true Bolshevik spirit.” This call, naturally, did not go unheeded. The Logic and Psychology Department of the Academy of Social Sciences obediently organized a full-dress denunciatory examination of S. L. Rubinshtein’s Soviet textbook, Foundations of General Psychology, which had come out in a revised edition in 1946. Until then Rubinshtein had been considered the leading Soviet psychologist, and the few accounts of Soviet psychology in American publications during the 40′s had been based chiefly on his work. But now-in the familiar McCarthy manner- Rubinshtein was thoroughly exposed as a rotten compromiser with bourgeois psychology, a polluter of Soviet science with “reactionary idealist rubbish.”
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