The Lysenko Controversy as a Global Phenomenon, Volume 1: Genetics and Agriculture in the Soviet Union and Beyond (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

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 aspects--his 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 today--the authors provide a fresh perspective on one of the most notorious episodes in the history of science Front Matter....Pages i-xiv “Lysenkoism” Redux: Introduction....Pages 1-34 Front Matter....Pages 35-35 Lysenko’s Predecessors: The Demchinskys and the Bed Cultivation of Cereal Crops....Pages 37-66 State Officials and Would-Be Scientists: How the Ukrainian Ministry of Agriculture Discovered for Lysenko that He Had Made a Scientific Discovery....Pages 67-96 Pavel Pantelimonovich Luk’ianenko and the Origins of the Soviet Green Revolution....Pages 97-127 Lysenko’s “Michurinism” and Art at the Moscow Darwin Museum 1935–1964....Pages 129-175 Back Matter....Pages 177-191 Volume 1. Genetics and agriculture in the Soviet Union and beyond