All over the world the interest in Vygotskij and his school (e.g. Lurija, Leontyev, i.e, the "Cultural-Historical School") is rapidly growing. However, the access to the writings of its founder is difficult or very limited: not all existing publications have been translated and the translations are not always of good quality. The understanding of these writings is hampered by inadequate knowledge of societal and intellectual life in the USSR of the 1920s and 1930s and later years. The connections between cultural-historical theory and a whole European tradition are little known.

Moreover, not even in Russian all existing writings have been published. The Vygotsky and Luria archives are not accessible to the scientific community (whereas the Leontyev archives have been or will be gradually opened up). Sofar we lack the necessary means to protect the materials, let alone to edit and present the files on a professional level.

After the collapse of the USSR, the further elaboration and application of cultural-historical theory by the generation of collaborators and students - Zaporozhets, Elkonin, Bozhovich, Galperin, Zinchenko, Davydov, Asmolov, A.A. Leontyev and others - has remained almost fully unknown.

The goal of this website is to overcome these difficulties. Texts and information will be published in various languages, although at this moment it is not yet possible to secure the identity of the various language versions. However, the editors express the hope that the juxtaposition of all available texts will stimulate the users to read and possibly to translate them