The Lysenko Controversy as a Global Phenomenon Volume 2 1st edition by Nikolai Krementsov,William deJong Lambert 9783319391793 3319391798

Part I: The Lysenko Controversy: East and West

Opportunism and Enforcement: Hungarian Reception of Michurinist Biology in the Cold War Period

Introduction

Lysenkoism in Hungary

The Spontaneous Period

1948

Acceptance of Michurinist Biology

Establishment of an Institutional Base

Scientists’ Reception Strategies

Start of Counter-reception in the Early Post-­Stalin Period

Counter-reception

Aftermath

Conclusions

Notes

Lysenko in Bellagio: The Lysenko Controversy and the Struggle for Authority Over Italian Geneti

Introduction

Corrado Gini and neo-Lamarckian Eugenics

The “Italian Michurin”: Alberto Pirovano and Italian “Applied Genetics”

Luigi Gedda, the “Catholic Lysenko”

Conclusions

Notes

The National Pattern of Lysenkoism in Romania

Introduction

The Mediators of Lysenkoist Propaganda

Import of Lysenkoism

The French Influence: Neo-Lamarckism in Romanian Biology

Michurin Without Lysenko

Conclusion

Notes

H.J. Muller and J.B.S. Haldane: Eugenics and Lysenkoism

Part I: J.B.S. Haldane and Eugenics

Part II: H.J. Muller, Eugenics and Lysenkoism

Part III: “Haldane, Especially, Must Not Be Informed…”

Part IV: The BBC “Debate”

Conclusion

Notes

Why Did Japanese Geneticists Take a Scientific Interest in Lysenko’s Theories?

Introduction

The Scope of this Chapter

Introduction of Lysenko’s Theories in the Normalization Process of Genetics Research Condition

The Internal Motives Behind Geneticists’ Scientific Interest in Lysenko’s Theories

Conclusion

Notes

Part II: The Lysenko Effects: Biology and Philosophy

Dialectics Denied: Muller, Lysenkoism, and the Fate of Chromosomal Mutation

Prometheanism

The Soviet Context

The American Context

Dialectics Denied

Notes

Lessons from Lysenko

Introduction

Contemporary References to Lysenkoism

The Return of Lamarckism: Plasticity

Biology and Contemporary Capitalism

Brain Plasticity: A New Political Battleground

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Current Attempts at Exonerating ‘Lysenkoism’ and Their Causes

Campaign to Exonerate T.D. Lysenko

Response of the Russian Academic Community

Some Reasons for the Revival of Lysenkoism

Conclusion