Proletarian Science?

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 biol...