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The conference was funded by a conference grant from the British Academy and, as part of the project bearing the same name, by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council. Aumüller and Simonato were, unexpectedly, unable to attend the conference, but their proposals had been accepted and they had composed their papers.
This idea particularly came to official prominance following the notorious trial of the Shakhti engineers in 1928. On this see Fitzpatrick (1992).
See Carr (1970), pp. 193–246.
The first two pursued successful careers in Soviet institutions in the 1930s, while the last sought a position within an institution and increasingly echoed the concerns of intellectuals within institutions. Vygotskii disappeared from soviet psychology only posthumously, as a result of the repression of psychotechnics (psikhotekhnika) and child studies (pedologiia) in 1937, while Freidenberg was compelled to retire earlier than she would have liked following Stalin’s attack on Marrism in 1950.
On the consequent narrowing of the intellectual field and rise of bland conformity within economics see Lee (2007).
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Brandist, C. Language and its social functions in early soviet thought. Stud East Eur Thought 60, 279–283 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-008-9060-0
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