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The Lysenko Affair [Paperback]

David Joravsky (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0226410315 | ISBN-13: 978-0226410319 | Publication Date: August 15, 1986

The Lysenko affair was perhaps the most bizarre chapter in the history of modern science. For thirty years, until 1965, Soviet genetics was dominated by a fanatical agronomist who achieved dictatorial power over genetics and plant science as well as agronomy.

"A standard source both for Soviet specialists and for sociologists of science."—American Journal of Sociology

"Joravsky has produced . . . the most detailed and authoritative treatment of Lysenko and his view on genetics."—New York Times Book Review

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David Joravsky is professor of history at Northwestern University.

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Paperback: 474 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (August 15, 1986)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226410315
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When other efforts fail, tired minds invoke the magic name of "ideology" to explain the behavior of Soviet Communists. Read the first page

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razvitiia rastenii, proletarskie kadry, sovetskoi selektsii, vegetatsionnogo perioda, fiziologii rastenii, hut lab movement, agricultural recipes, militant ignoramuses, leguminous herbage, healthy seed potatoes, campaign for scientific agriculture, otdel biol, intravarietal crossing, unacknowledged dogma, zernovoe khoziaistvo, lesnoe khoziaistvo, hut labs, potato specialists, filoso fii, corn specialists, genuine biology, novaia seriia, vegetative hybridization, agrarnom fronte, fertilizer scheme

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Central Committee, Soviet Union, August Session, Academy of Sciences, Commissariat of Agriculture, Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Moscow University, Commissar of Agriculture, Council of People's Commissars, Communist Academy, Comrade Lysenko, Ministry of Agriculture, Timiriazev Academy, Leningrad University, Bolshevik Revolution, Botanical Journal, United States, Minister of Agriculture, All-Union Institute of Plant Industry, Minister of Higher Education, Soviet Marxists, Timiriazev Institute, Second World War, Moscow Agricultural Institute, Five Year Plan

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