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Lysenko and the tragedy of Soviet science

by Valeriĭ Soĭfer

1994 379 pages eng

Trofim Lysenko's campaign against genetics and biology during the era of Stalin and Khrushchev is one of the great tragedies of modern science. In the purges that Lysenko (1898-1976) instigated, even the greatest of Soviet scientists were not safe. Only in 1964, when Khrushchev fell from power and w…

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