[8] November 12 — THE LYSENKO PROBLEM
Section outline
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Assigned reading:
Nikolai Krementsov, "Talking the talk: Ritual and rhetoric," Stalinist Science (1997), 158-183.Kirill Rossiianov, "Editing Nature: Joseph Stalin and the 'new' Soviet biology," Isis 84 (1993): 728-745.
Further resources:
Trofim Lysenko, The Science of Biology Today (1948) (excerpt).
David Joravsky, "Academic issues: Science," The Lysenko Affair (1970), 187-227.
Ethan Pollock, "From Partiinost' to Nauchnost' and Not Quite Back Again: Revisiting the Lessons of the Lysenko Affair," Slavic Review 68 (2009): 95-115.Nils Roll-Hansen, "Wishful Science: The Persistence of T. D. Lysenko’s Agrobiology in the Politics of Science," Osiris 23 (2008): 166-188.
O. V. Romanets', "Negativnyi vplyv lysenkivshchyny na genetichnu nauku v ukrainy," Narysy z istorii pryrodoznavstva i tekhniky 46 (2012): 53-64.
Ethan Pollock, Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars (2006).
Loren R. Graham, Lysenko's Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia (2016).