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This paper is the second of a series of articles dealing with the history and theory of the Zagorsk experiment. The first article was published in No. 3 for 2013. A number of philosophers and psychologists have realized the importance of rearing and educating deaf-blind children in the Soviet Union as they believe it reveals the secret of the origin of the human personality.. This paper examines the question of inconsistency in the facts with the Marxist philosophical-psychological interpretations of the education of deaf-blind children and deals with the question of whether the experiment was falsified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is the first of a series of articles dealing with the history and theory of the Zagorsk experiment. A number of philosophers and psychologists have realized the importance of rearing and educating deaf-blind children in the Soviet Union as they believe it reveals the secret of the origin of the human personality. This paper also examines the Zagorsk experiment’s “canonical version,” the Marxist philosophical and psychological interpretations of educating deaf-blind children, and raises the question of whether the facts fit these interpretations. It contends that the Zagorsk experiment expressed the spirit and metaphysics of the Soviet epoch. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]