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(Cambridge, ma: Harvard University Press, 2016), 224 pp., $24.95 (hb), isbn 9780674089051.For those of us whose first encounter with the region once known as the “communist bloc” occurred right after the fall of the Berlin Wall, recent events have made for an odd sense that history has gone into reverse. At the Seventh International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science in Prague this past September, informal conversations among participants inevitably turned to current developments in the region, the u.s. and Russia. It seemed nearly everyone was realizing that what had so recently seemed like “the end of history,” was in fact an interlude before the Marxian dialectic kicked in. Given the recent return to polarization and the popularity of authoritarian regimes, as well as the fact that the conference featured several papers on the “Lysenko affair,” Loren Graham’s, Lysenko’s Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia, could not be more timely.By way of brief recap, the peasant agronomist Trofim D. Lysenko rose to prominence in Soviet biology amidst the collectivization campaigns of Joseph Stalin during the 1930s. The most prominent feature of Lysenko’s prescriptions for ending the cycle of tragedy in Soviet agriculture, was his notion that species could
The Soviet and Post Soviet Review – Brill
Published: Jul 5, 2017
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