A szovjet pszichológia amerikai interpretációja az emigránsok visszaemlékezései alapján
Emigrants’ Life Stories and Interviews: The Soviet Psychology and Psychiatry in American Interpretation

Summary/Abstract: A unique project was developed between 1949 and 1953 by the Harvard University Russian Research Center, based on hundreds of interviews recorded with Soviet emigrants, conducted by sociologists. The organized system of transcripts, transcribed into English, are available online (Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System). These interviews reflect everyday Soviet reality between 1917 and 1945, and they have not yet been analysed in Hungary. The corpus is constituted by two parts: A-Schedule (personal life stories) and B-Schedule (special topics). Based on both, I give an acount of the positions of Stalinist psychology and psychiatry, as created in the interactions of the emigrants and the interviewers, in which teachers, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists spoke about their profession placed in the dimension of the political situation.

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