However , as a result of growing control over science and following a period of political persecutions during Stalin 's Great Terror ( 1936-1953 ) a new center was formed around 1939 under the leadership of Luria and Leontiev . In the after-war period this developed into the so-called the " School of Vygotsky-Leontiev-Luria " . Recent studies show that this " school " never existed as such
Great Terror
Great Purge
Vygotsky Circle