TY - JOUR TI - The Social Ambience and the Individual Path of a Scientist: the Case of Applied Psychology in the 1920s T2 - Educational Studies Moscow IS - Educational Studies Moscow KW - history of education KW - paedology KW - psychotechnics KW - public consciousness AB - The article considers the conditions in which the public consciousness was formed in the 1920s. It presents the factors that influenced the main directions of scientific inquiry, and shows the context in which new branches of Russian science, namely paedology, psychotechnics, and pedagogics, were formed. The author notes the tension and difficult circumstances of that period that affected such prominent scientists as A.B. Zalkind, I.N. Spielrein, and others. AU - Aleksandr Etkind UR - https://archive_vo.hse.ru/en/2006--3/26556856.html PY - 2006 SP - 68-80 VL -