Death of a Science in Russia : the Fate of Genetics as Described in "Pravda" and Elsewhere

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE DECLINE OF GENETICS, 1939-40 -- III. A CONTROVERSY WITH A TWISTED ENDING, 1943-47 -- IV. GENETICS IN RUSSIA AFTER TEN YEARS OF COLD OFFICIAL WARFARE -- V. THE BEGINNING OF THE END -- VI. THE WITCH HUNT GETS UNDER WAY -- VII. A FORLORN AND FUTILE STAND -- VIII. THE CLIMAX OF T H E ARGUMENTS -- IX. THE END OF T H E ROAD -- X. RECANTATIONS -- XI. THE HERESY HUNT SPREADS -- XII. REVERBERATIONS ABROAD -- BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes Reports Of Speeches Made At The 1948 Session Of The V. I. Lenin All-Union Academy Of Agricultural Sciences.