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Lev Vygotsky  

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  • Lev Semenovich Vygotsky (1896–1934) was born of middle-class parents in the Jewish enclave of Orsha, a town in western Russia near Minsk. From childhood, he excelled in multiple educational pursuits, earning a gold medal for the highest grades in all of his subjects, organizing his adolescent friends to debate such ideas as Hegel's philosophy of history, and completing studies at two Moscow universities in 1917. [Source: Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent; Vygotsky, Lev (1896–1934)]

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