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Wishful Science: The Persistence of T. D. Lysenko's Agrobiology in the Politics of Science (2008)

Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 23
Pages: 166--188

Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Volume title: “Intelligentsia Science Inside and Outside Russia”
Language: English

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Lamarckism Genetics Science and ideology Public policy 20th century, early Russia Soviet Union Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich

The suppression of genetics in Soviet Russia was the big scandal of twentieth-century science. It was also a test case for the role of scientists in a liberal democracy. The intellectual's perennial dilemma between scientific truthfulness and political loyalty was sharpened by acute ideological conflicts. The central topic of this essay is how the conflict was played out in Soviet agricultural and biological science in the 1930s and 1940s. The account is focused on the role of the then current Soviet science policy and its basic epistemic principles, the unity of theory and practice and the practice criterion of truth.

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Article Gordin, Michael D.; Hall, Karl (2008) Introduction. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 1). unapi

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