Thus, the majority of the contemporary Russian psychological community does not at all refer to the paradigm prevailing in Soviet psychology.

What part of the contemporary professional community masters theories of Soviet psychology? A very small one. That knowledge had to be transmitted directly from teachers to students, particularly taking into account the role of oral tradition in psychological education in Soviet Russia. There were no tutorials and classbooks for future psychologists. Their studies were based on monographs and papers, which were written in "Aesopian" language. The texts of our classics require hermeneutics, require reading together with the teacher.

That theory is mastered today by a very small part of the professional community, by those who have been specially trained and educated. Moreover, not all of these people cling to the old theoretical positions, so that this group's size gradually decreases.

However, the first group, which we denote is a group of followers of the Soviet psychology traditions, let us call it "Activity theory (AT) trend", as this is the most frequently used label for Soviet psychology in the mainstream. This group is not numerous, but that does not diminish its significance in the context of the problem being discussed.

What other groups should be singled out?

In the 90's with the collapse of the Soviet psychology paradigm, against a combination of processes of blurring of boundaries between the national and the global science and those of disintegration of the national professional community, a focus on foreign theories dominated in Russian psychology. Scientists who cling to those we shall call here "Pro-Western Developments" and assign them to a particular group, the second one in our analysis.

As for authentic trends that have developed in Russia in the post-perestroika period, we can denote Christian Orthodox Psychology, or Spiritual-Philosophical psychology, that is developing vigorously now, continuing a tradition that existed in Russia in pre-Soviet period. This research we shall call here "National Authentic Developments" and assign the scientists to a new group.

Of course, our classification is unilateral and symbolic, it does not appeal to the substance of the theories, very different theoretical orientations we put here in the same group (behaviourists, psychoanalytics, humanistic psychologists are all ascribed to "Pro-Western Developments"), because here we take into account only one aspect – how the theoretical approach developed in Russia in Post – Soviet period: continuing the development of the paradigm of Soviet period (AT); following contemporary Western traditions ("Pro-Western Developments"); Authentic developments ("National Authentic Developments"). And of course, very rarely we can see a pure brand in reality. Yet the classification is very easy to use – just look into the reference lists in papers…