The other part of the professional community, which we have designated here as «National Authentic Developments», is rapidly growing since the beginning of the XXI с Christian Orthodox, Spiritual or Philosophical psychology develops the traditions rooted in the pre-Soviet period of Russian psychology. This is an entirely authentic trend, closely related to Russian culture, focused in practices on a vast Russian market, based on Russian authors and appealing to the Russian mentality.
Representatives of this group show no globalist tendencies, counterglobalist tendencies are strong.
Publications in foreign journals, of course, are no adequate indicator of the quality of work of these scientists, and the necessity of a «breakthrough» into the mainstream for them it is far from obvious.
At the same time, in the long term it seems quite possible. It is well known that representatives of Russian Spiritual and Philosophical thought, who had been expelled from the country in 1922 (N. A. Berdjaev, M. I. Vladislavlev, etc.), had a significant influence on the development of world science, in particular, on the development of existentialism.
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Let us consider their reasons "for" integration.
First of all, it is this trend that meets the expectations of foreign colleagues. It is recognized that for western colleagues Russian psychology is, above all, represented by the works of classics of the Soviet period: "… the representation of Russian/Soviet psychology in the West… can be assessed as the idea that Russian psychology is the works of such luminaries as Vygotsky and Luria" (Yurevich, 2009, с 79).
And it is to this trend that there remains a steady and even growing interest in the international science. The analysis of literature indicates that as time passes, the interest in international psychology to Vygotsky's work is only growing, as reflected in the growth of index of citations of his work. According to this indicator in recent years Vygotsky moved ahead of many classics of foreign psychology (Yurevich, 2009, Karpov, 2005). The interest in classics of Soviet psychology can promote an interest in the work of successors.
Thus, first, foreign colleagues are willing to hear scientists working in the AT trend. Secondly – the latter have something to say. These Russian psychologists have every reason to be involved in the dialogue with the West.
Behind the iron curtain psychological science was lively developing and many talented scientists contributed to it. The ideas of L. S. Vygotsky and I. P. Pavlov inspired new theoretical reasoning and empirical research alongside with ideas still unknown to the international community. Classical theories of Soviet psychology, known in the West, first of all the theory of L. S. Vygotsky, were developing on the native soil, and this development was different than in the West.