1st Edition

Stalinist Genetics The Constitutional Rhetoric of T. D. Lysenko

Edited By Dmitri Stanchevici Copyright 2012
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

Stalinist Genetics focuses on the rhetoric of T. D. Lysenko, the founder of an agrobiological doctrine (Lysenkoism) in the Stalinist Soviet Union. Using not only scientific but also political and ideological arguments, Lysenko achieved an official ban on Soviet Mendelian genetics. Though the ban was brief and Lysenkoism, as a leading biological doctrine, was eventually deposed in favor of... Read more

Overview

 CHAPTER 1 Introduction

 CHAPTER 2 Literature Review: Contradictions in Lysenkoism

 CHAPTER 3 Critical Methodology

 CHAPTER 4 Context of Lysenko’s 1936 and 1948 VASKhNIL Speeches

 CHAPTER 5 Constitutional Rhetoric in Lysenko’s 1936 VASKhNIL Speech: Calling for the Enemy

 CHAPTER 6 Constitutional Rhetoric in Lysenko’s 1936 VASKhNIL Speech: Dance of Ambiguity

 CHAPTER 7 Constitutional Rhetoric in Lysenko’s 1948 Address to VASKhNIL: Laying Common Grounds for the Debate with the Geneticists

 CHAPTER 8 Constitutional Rhetoric in Lysenko’s 1948 Address to VASKhNIL: Geneticists’ Use of Lysenko’s Terms

 CHAPTER 9 Conclusion

 References

 Index


 

Biography

Dmitri Stanchevici