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Proletarian Science? - The Case of Lysenko (Paperback)
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Proletarian Science? - The Case of Lysenko (Paperback)
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The Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko, who died in 1976, symbolizes
one of the most notorious yet obscure episodes in the history of
the Soviet Union. Emerging from provincial shadows in the Ukraine
during the twenties, Lysenko achieved a meteoric career under
Stalin's dictatorship, when ever greater claims were officially
made for his 'environmentalism'. Overlord and autocrat of all
Soviet biology after the Second World War, Lysenko's doctrines were
promulgated throughout the international communist movement - from
Britain to Japan - as a specifically 'proletarian' science, as
opposed to mere bourgeois science. After Stalin's death, Lysenko
soon plunged into discredit - although his agricultural recipes
were to be approved again by Khruschev. Dominique Lecourt - author
of the highly successful study Marxism and Epistemology - poses the
question: what was the historical meaning of Lysenko? Was Lysenko
no more than a brutal charlatan? Or did his ideas correspond - not
to any canon of science - but to wider social forces at work in the
USSR? Lecourt's sardonic and perceptive study provides a definitive
critique of the follies of 'anti-Mendelian' biology, and a
materialist account of the reasons for its triumph in Russia during
the rule of Stalin. An important afterword traces the original idea
of a proletarian science to its source in Bogdanov. In a major
introductory essay, Louis Althusser poses the acute political
problems which the history of Lysenko still represents for
Communists everywhere, and for the first time directly indicts
political repression in the USSR today.
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