Fra et custumer review:
Lysenko was responsible for retarding an entire generation of Soviet/Russian biology. Out the Soviet Union, his views were roundly discredited. But as Roll-Hansen explains, within the Soviet Union, he wielded great authority. Somehow, he got his theories in sync with the dialectic promulgated by the Communist Party. Any observational results that dissented from this were ignored. Or worse. Sometimes, biologists would find their careers destroyed. |
|