How the Pseudoscience was Settled: Lysenko and the Art of Ideological Institutional Capture

Lessons on 'gender' from the history of Soviet 'science'

Oct 04, 2023

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Trofim Lysenko, the Soviet Era's Deadliest Scientist, Is Regaining Popularity in Russia - The Atlantic

Image curation was a major concern for the Soviets. Despite a vast censorship bureaucracy, however, truths still got out of the Soviet Union in the form of official photography. Truth could appear as informed commentary on the official caption. When Robert C. Cook published the above photo in a 1949 issue of The Journal of Heredity devoted to “the genet…

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