lysenkoism

He had buried his book on Lysenkoism and forged ahead without a backward glance.

Many scholarly works on Lysenkoism agree that it was not based on human genetics.

Thus, Lysenkoism caused serious, long-term harm to Soviet knowledge of biology.

At one point Lysenkoism, which many consider a pseudoscience, was favored in agriculture and biology.

Lysenkoism at the time of the novel's creation was still being defended by some prominent international Stalinists.

In much the way Lysenkoism was a crude science conducted by members of the Marxist faith."

Lysenkoism remained Soviet policy, enforceable by severe penalties, until 1964, when it was officially discredited.

This opens up the Lysenkoism debate.

It was twenty years before Russia's agriculture program began to recover from the hole Lysenkoism had dug for it.

Roger Pearson once accused Mehler of "activist Lysenkoism."

"The Disastrous Effects of Lysenkoism on Soviet Agriculture."

Ultimately, Lysenkoism yielded poor agricultural results for the USSR.

Lysenkoism and Japhetic theory were promoted for brief periods of time in biology and linguistics respectively, despite having no scientific merit.

Trofim Lysenko - a Soviet agricultural leader, after whom a powerful political-scientific movement Lysenkoism was named.

A Marxist humanist, Sheehan has written critically of Lysenkoism and Stalin's impact on scientific development.

(A Marxist, though anti-Stalinist, history of Lysenkoism)

His attitude changed dramatically at the end of World War II, when Lysenkoism reached a totalitarian influence in the Communist movement.

In spite of interruptions by Lysenkoism and by the Cultural Revolution, Tan was still scientifically active in China."

Dr. Sakharov supported classical geneticists, irritating Mr. Khrushchev but helping to break the hold of Lysenkoism on Soviet biological science.

More important is the fact that Lysenkoism offers a convenient means of glorifying a purely Russian "science" at the expense of the "foreign" science of capitalist enemies.

Huxley, who had twice visited the Soviet Union, was originally not anti-communist, but the ruthless adoption of Lysenkoism by Joseph Stalin ended his tolerant attitude.

Henceforth, the possibilities for philosophical research independent of official dogmatics virtually vanished, while lysenkoism was enforced in the scientific fields (in 1948, genetics were declared a "bourgeois pseudoscience").

Lysenko's claims of genetic memory and efforts to obtain or fabricate results in proof of it had disastrous effects for Russian genetics in the early 20th century (also see: Lysenkoism).

The Case of Lysenko (1977), Atlantic Highlands, Humanities Press, London, this digital edition first published 2003 (A Marxist, though anti-Stalinist, history of Lysenkoism)

A form of Lamarckism was revived in the Soviet Union of the 1930s when Trofim Lysenko promoted Lysenkoism which suited the ideological opposition of Joseph Stalin to genetics.