Background
RUBINSHTEYN, Sergey was born on June 18, 1889 in Odessa.
RUBINSHTEYN, Sergey was born on June 18, 1889 in Odessa.
1913 graduate Novorossiysk University, Odessa.
From 1915 taught psychology and logic at a high-school. From 1919 associate professor, Chair of Philosophy and Psychology, Odessa University. From 1921 also head, Chair of Psychology, Odessa Institute of Education.
1932-1942 head, Chair of Psychology, Leningrad’s Herzen Teachers’ Training Institute. 1942-1950 head, Chair of Psychology, Moscow University. 1942-1945 also director, Institute of Psychology, Moscow.
From 1945 head, Psychology Section, and deputy director, Institute of Philosophy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Specialized in theory, philosophical aspects and history of psychology.
Religion is bad because it imposes irrational rules of good and bad behaviour.
Every person has rights to express his or her opinion, but the opinion could be expressed if it was in accordance with the general interests of Soviet society.
Correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1943. Member, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Academy of Pedagogical Sciences from 1945.