Editors' Introduction

Abstract

The translation that makes up this issue of the Journal of Russian and East European Psychology is taken from a book-length treatise on Russian social psychology composed by Elena A. Budilova (1983). It is the major passage we have seen from that period that considers extensively the theory and research of Bekhterev in the context of other significant writers in his intellectual community, those who might fairly be considered social psychologists: A. F. Lazursky, L. E. Vladimirov, N. N. Iadrintsev, L. E. Petrazhitsky, M. A. Reisner, and G Shumkov, along with a few others less well known. This is useful because, as we have detailed elsewhere (Strickland, 1998), for most of the Soviet period, and particularly after his death, Bekhterev's contributions were essentially ignored in other social psychological works. Budilova, a former historian of psychology at the USSR Academy of Sciences, has been one exception to this slight; she has discussed Bekhterev at the end of one chapter (Budilova, 1984), and in a recently published translation in this journal (Budilova, 1981/2001). Indeed, much of this latter paper appears embedded in the present lengthy excerpt, but this time in the context of other contemporaries' work. Her effort also offers background to some of the Bekhterev papers that have appeared over the years in the pages of this journal (Bekhterev, 1992a, 1992b/1994a, 1994b). Bekhterev can now be viewed as one of a number of creative Russians attempting to analyze significant features of Russian life in social psychological terms.

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