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  1. Lobotomies and Botulism Bombs: Beckett’s Trilogy and the Cold War.Adam Piette - 2016 - Journal of Medical Humanities 37 (2):161-169.
    The article argues that Beckett's Trilogy stages the effects of a lobotomy operation on a potentially politically subversive writer, and that the consequences of the operation can be traced in both the retreat of the narrator of the Trilogy into the mind and into comatose mental states and in the detail of the operation itself, based on the 'icepick' lobotomies performed by neurologist Walter Freeman in the late 1940s and early 1950s. To write about extreme psychiatric situations in the post-war (...)
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  • Deconstructing Vygotsky’s victimization narrative: A re-examination of the ‘Stalinist suppression’ of Vygotskian theory.Jennifer Fraser & Anton Yasnitsky - 2015 - History of the Human Sciences 28 (2):128-153.
    Although many facets of Lev Vygotsky’s life have drawn considerable attention from historians of science, perhaps the most popular feature of his personal narrative was that his work was actively chastised by the Stalinist government. Almost all contemporary references to Vygotsky’s personal history emphasize that from 1936 to 1956, it was forbidden to either discuss or disseminate any of Vygotsky’s works within the Soviet Union. Although this ‘Vygotsky ban’ is both widely acknowledged and frequently cited by a variety of scholars, (...)
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  • The Psychology and Physiology of Behaviour: Some Recent Soviet Writings on Their History.Josef Brožek - 1971 - History of Science 10 (1):56-87.
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