How One Soviet Pseudoscientist Starved Millions: The Tragedy of Lysenkoism

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a deeper look at Trofimov Lysenko, a Soviet agronomist who's pseudoscientific ideas gained traction due to their ideological alignment with the Soviet regime, resulting in the deaths of millions.

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*SOURCES*
Kean, Sam. “The Soviet Era’s Deadliest Scientist Is Regaining Popularity in Russia.” The Atlantic, December 19, 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/a...

Jerry A. Coyne, Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible (Penguin Random House, 2016)

Dr Vadim J. Birstein, The Perversion of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science (Basic Books, 2008)

William Dejong-Lambert and Nikolai Krementsov (eds.), The Lysenko Controversy as a Global Phenomenon, Volume I: Genetics and Agriculture in the Soviet Union and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

Michael Ellman, "Stalin and the Soviet Famine of 1932–33 Revisited," Europe-Asia Studies, Vol.59, No.4 (2007)

Loren R. Graham, Science in Russia and the Soviet Union: A Short History (Cambridge University Press, 1993)

Valeriĭ Soyfer, Lysenko and The Tragedy of Soviet Science (Rutgers University Press, 1994)