Theoretical historical analysis of leontiev and vygotsky’s productions on the development of memory

Abstract

In the early 1930s, aiming at analysing Leontiev’s book The development of memory, Leontiev and Vygotsky wrote a second preface to it, presenting the work, observing its qualities, and discussing some aspects they evaluated as fragile. The goal of this paper is to carry out a theoretical historical analysis of that preface, highlighting the investigative procedures applied about the concept of memory, the criticisms made by the authors and how the historical-cultural theory understood memory.