From “Vygotsky’s School” to “Vygotsky’s Circle”

a critical historiographical perspective

Abstract

Discussing the historical context of the scientific production is a task for a critical historiography of the sciences, currently performed by a number of researchers on the Soviet Psychology. The main objective of this article is to expose the concept of Vygotsky’s Circle, by Anton Yasnitsky, in opposition to the commonplace idea of Vygotsky´s School, which is present in most Brazilian works, highlighting the consequences of this second idea in the country. Henceforth, the research sought to apprehend the different settings of Vygotsky´s Circle in the historical context of USSR (1924-1941), from a Marxist perspective of those works. The method was a bibliographic research about the concept of Vygotsky’s Circle on the works of Yasnitsky and the historical context of USSR, followed by a bibliographic review of articles and books available in Scholar Google. The results show that the concept of Vygotsky’s Circle emphasizes the dialogical and polyphonic dimension of the scientific research in soviet psychology.