Lysenkoism
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Lysenkoism (Russian: Лысе́нковщина), or Lysenko-Michurinism was the centralized political control exercised over genetics and agriculture by Trofim Lysenko and his followers. Lysenko was the director of the Soviet Union's Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Lysenkoism began in the late 1920s and formally ended in 1964.
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See also
- Great Leap Forward
- Japhetic theory
- Lamarckism
- Pavlovian session
- Politicization of science
- Roy Medvedev
- Suppressed research in the Soviet Union
- Deutsche Physik
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