Background
ANSON, Karl was born in 1887 in Liflyand Province. Son of a blacksmith.
ANSON, Karl was born in 1887 in Liflyand Province. Son of a blacksmith.
Graduate Pedagogical Faculty, Second Moscow University. Postgraduate studies at Moscow Institute of Psychology.
1912 imprisoned for revol activities. Early 1917 exiled to Narym Kray. Late 1917 helped establish Soviet rule in Siberia and the Urals.
Served with Red Army. Secretary, Party organizations during studies at Moscow University and Institute of Psychology. From 1930 secretary, Party organisation, then laboratory head, Moscow Institute of Psychology.
From 1944 rector, Riga Teachers’ Training Institute. Published works on campaign against idealism in Soviet psychology.
All religious orders impose irrational rules of good and bad behaviour.
The role of the individual as a member of a collective is more important than the individual.
Communist Party member from 1911.
