This volume covers the global history of the Lysenko controversy, while exploring in greater depth the background of D. Lysenko's career and influence in the USSR. By presenting the rise and fall of T.D. Lysenko in a variety of aspectshis influence upon art, unrecognized predecessors, and the extent to which genetics continued in the USSR even while he was in power, and the revival of his reputation todaythe authors provide a fresh perspective on one of the most notorious episodes in the history of science.

Provides thorough and multi-pronged approach to the study of Lysenkoism both inside the Soviet Union and out Analyzes why and how a seemingly local eventthe rise and fall of Trofim Lysenko in the Soviet Unionbecame a truly global phenomenon DemonstrateS the international impact of Lysenkoism in its namesake's heyday

Autorentext

William deJong-Lambert is an Associate Professor of History at Bronx Community College, CUNY, and Associate Faculty of the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University, USA. His book, The Cold War Politics of Genetic Research: An Introduction to the Lysenko Affair, was published in 2012.

Nikolai Krementsov is a Professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on the history of Soviet science, biomedical research, eugenics, and intersections of science and literature.

Inhalt

.1. Lysenkoism Redux Nikolai Krementsov and William deJong-Lambert.- 2. Lysenko's Predecessors: the Demchinskiis and a New Technique of Cereals Cultivation Olga Elina.- 3. State Officials and Would-Be Scientists: How the Ukrainian Ministry of Agriculture Discovered for Lysenko that He Had Made a Scientific Discovery Lukas Joos.- 4. Pavel Pantelimonovich Luk'ianenko and the Origins of the Soviet Green Revolution Mark B. Tauger.- 5. Lysenko's Michurinism and Art at the Moscow Darwin Museum, 1930s-1950s Pat Simpson.