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Lysenkoism: Lysenko speaking at the Kremlin in 1935. At the back left to right are Stanislav Kosior, Anastas Mikoyan, Andrei Andreev and Joseph Stalin.
 
 

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Lysenkoism Summary
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Lysenkoism is a term used by geneticists and historians to describe the pseudoscientific practices of Russian horticulturist Trofim Denisovich Lysenko [1898-1976] in the totalitarian Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the first half of...
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The Disastrous Effects of Lysenkoism on Soviet Agriculture Summary
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The disastrous effects of Lysenkoism, a term used to describe the impact of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko's (1898-1976) influence upon science and agriculture in the Soviet Union during the first half of the 20th century, darkly illustrates the...
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Lysenkoism is a term given to the repressive political and social campaigns undertaken in science and agriculture by the powerful Stalinist director of the Soviet Institute of Genetics, Trofim Denisovich Lysenko and his followers, which began in the...


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Skeptical Inquirer
Lysenko and the Tragedy of Soviet Science. (book reviews)
05/01/1995: 1,086 words, approx. 4 pages
Valery Soyfer has written an important book for all skeptics and those who would defend the scientific method and the right to free inquiry. The lesson of Soyfer's Lysenko and the Tragedy of Soviet Science is that freedom of thought is a fragile...
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Western Folklore
The World of Mykola Lysenko: Ethnic Identity, Music, and Politics in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Ukraine
10/01/2003: 877 words, approx. 3 pages
The World of Mykola Lysenko: Ethnic Identity, Music, and Politics in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Ukraine. By Taras Filenko and Tamara Bulat. (Edmonton: Ukrainian Millennium Foundation, 2001. Pp. viii + 434, foreword, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, photographs, appendices, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth) In...
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Christian honored for Holocaust rescue
9/7/2007: 513 words, approx. 2 pages
When Masha Spivak's parents and two siblings were killed in Ukraine during the Holocaust, she decided to go into hiding.Two of her teachers heard about her family, took her in and helped her change her Jewish identity _ at a huge risk to their own...
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IOC plans Olympic ban for doping cheats
8/24/2007: 495 words, approx. 2 pages
IOC President Jacques Rogge said serious doping offenders would be banned from the next Olympics even if their regular suspension had already ended.Rogge told a news conference Friday that such a penalty could effectively amount to a four-year ban for athletes. Only if the athletes...
 


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