The Lysenko Controversy as a Global Phenomenon, Volume 2: Genetics and Agriculture in the Soviet Union and Beyond (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

Annotation This volume examines the international impact of Lysenkoism in its namesake's heyday and the reasons behind Lysenko's rehabilitation in Russia today. By presenting the rise and fall of T.D. Lysenko in its various aspects, the authors provide a fresh perspective on one of the most notorious episodes in the history of science Front Matter....Pages i-xi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Opportunism and Enforcement: Hungarian Reception of Michurinist Biology in the Cold War Period....Pages 3-36 Lysenko in Bellagio: The Lysenko Controversy and the Struggle for Authority Over Italian Genetics (1948–1956)....Pages 37-72 The National Pattern of Lysenkoism in Romania....Pages 73-102 H.J. Muller and J.B.S. Haldane: Eugenics and Lysenkoism....Pages 103-135 Why Did Japanese Geneticists Take a Scientific Interest in Lysenko’s Theories?....Pages 137-157 Front Matter....Pages 159-159 Dialectics Denied: Muller, Lysenkoism, and the Fate of Chromosomal Mutation....Pages 161-184 Lessons from Lysenko....Pages 185-206 Current Attempts at Exonerating ‘Lysenkoism’ and Their Causes....Pages 207-236 Back Matter....Pages 237-343 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.