Pavel Petrovich Blonsky

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Pavel Petrovich Blonsky (1884-1941) was a famous Russian psychologist (he lived in Ukraine till 1918). He introduced the behaviorist approach in Russian psychology (under the label "objective Marxist psychology"). During 1930s he was severely criticized for his adherence to psychological testing and studies of inborn capabilities (which contradicted to the official Soviet ideology of "inborn equality of all people").

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