This article reviews the ideological, political, economic, social, cultural, personal, moral, and
ethical factors that determined the conduct of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural …

During the late 1940s and 1950s, a pseudo-scientific concept based on Marxist-Leninist
ideology became internationally known as ‘Lysenkoism'. Lysenkoism was a neo-Lamarckian …

This chapter surveys wartime science mobilization within National Socialist Germany, Japan,
and the Soviet Union to understand how each nation mobilized science resources for the …

This paper examines new evidence from R ussian archives to argue that S oviet geneticist
and plant breeder, N ikolai I. V avilov's fate was sealed during the ‘ C ultural R evolution’ (‘ R …

… As a result, Russian translation of Darwin’s terms was closer to Bronn’s than to Darwin’s (compare:
Kolchinsky, this volume). The same terminology was used in the translation of …

This chapter examines social, political and intellectual contexts of recent attempts to exonerate
Lysenkoism and restore his academic credibility in Russia. It argues that the revival of …

This paper examines the dynamics of the honorary membership of Russian scientists at the
Royal Society over a 350-year period. Using several outstanding Russian scientists as …

Most of the eighteenth century investigations on natural history in Russia were carried out by
the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, which was founded on the 28th of January 1724 …

The modern literature about Nikolai I. Vavilov is analyzed, placing recent attempts to blame
Vavilov and to exonerate Lysenko within their social, political and intellectual contexts. We …

This study is devoted to the authors who initiated the revival of the Russian avantgarde
tradition, which had been brutally suppressed by the Soviet authorities in the mid- 1930s. The …