It would be helpful for me more to know about the biography of A.B.
Zalkind/Salkind (Арон Борисович Залкинд) was a Russian psychiatrist. He was a follower of Freud's psychoanalysis, undoubtedly influential with his ideas in the first 15 years after Soviet Revolution 1917 (for instance concerning sex abstinence in order to collect energies for socialism). But his fate under Stalin's dictatorship is unknown, also the causes of his death. Salkind wrote 1925 (2001 new edited) a book about "pedology", the Russian child-centered variation of "progressive education" in the early years of Soviet Union, the book is well-known in WorldCat but didn't get much attention in the Western World, there exists, as far as I know, no translation in English or another European language. A short Wikipedia-entry about Zalkind gives some information. Perhaps colleagues can help who know more. Especially I am interested in Zalkind's relation to the leading educationalists in the early era of Soviet education, S.T. Schatzky, and Albert Pinkewitsch.
Dear Hein,
For this very complice work - it is good to see the Archives
Best regards,
MTT
Dear Marpha, thank you very much for your note! I will see, there exist a renewed edition of 2001, so the book is available in Germany, and a hope it to meet in the next week, kind regards, Hein
Dear Hein,
russian Wikipedia says that he was deposed from his position of the director of the Institute of Psychology, Pedology and Psychotechnics, which was part of the Faculty of Medicine at the Moscow university in 1931. In particular, he was accused of "menshevistic-idealistic eclecticism" and was persecuted because of Freudianism and "perversions in work". According to unvalidated information, he died on the street from myocardial infarction after his scientific and administrative activities had been criticized at some meeting in Moscow in 1936.
I guess the best starting point for your really complice work would be to get in touch with the russian colleagues to get access to the archives in St. Petersburg and Moscow. By no means it will suffice to wait for some re-issued translations of some particular well-known works.
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