In the 1920s psychoanalysis almost became part of the state doctrine of the USSR, mainly due to Lev Trotsky's vehement interest: it was about nothing less than the romantic-utopian ideas of the radical transformation of man. Unlike in the West, Russian psychoanalysis was extremely politicized and close to the state. The Bolsheviks expected from it the tools for the revolutionary reconstruction of man.
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