This intellectual biography of Lev Vygotsky, based on the most recent archival investigations in original Russian, this explores a number of personae that Vygotsky assumed at different periods of his life.

Ouverture. 1. Prophet 2. Bolshevik 3. Reflexologist 4. Psychologist 5. Revisionist 6. Holist. Epilogue: Genius

Anton Yasnitsky, Ph.D., is an independent researcher who specializes in the Vygotsky-Luria Circle. He has coedited (with René van der Veer et al.) The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology (2014), Revisionist Revolution in Vygotsky Studies (2015), and Vygotski revisitado: una historia crítica de su contexto y legado (2016).