Foundations of AT were laid by Rubinstein and Vygotsky Leontiev developed and supplemented the ideas of his predecessors. However, Leontiev neglected the ideas of the key role of internal factors of activity which determine the course of individual interaction with the environment. These ideas of Rubinstein and Vygotsky were developed and elaborated by other Soviet psychologists, less well-known outside Russia, first of all in the works of B. G. Ananiev.
The key issue in the works of Ananiev was the impact of personality on psycho-physiological functions – in this aspect he carried on the agenda of Vygotsky and Rubinstein from which the Leontiev school moved to the analysis of outer activity.
The reasons why Leontiev's theory was dominant in the literature, and there were virtually no open discussions in 1930s and in 1950s concerning the discrepancies between his views and those of his predecessors, as well as the reasons why in the 1960–1970s Ananiev's theory was overshadowed by Leontiev's work, can be found in the political context of the development of science in a totalitarian state.
Leontiev contributed much to Activity Theory, but his contribution is not all AT, only part of the trend. Bringing to the light theories less straightforward and less simplifying, might reveal new perspectives and potentialities for the integration of AT into the international mainstream.
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