Biology Suppressed research in the Soviet Union



in mid-1930s, agronomist trofim lysenko started campaign against genetics , supported stalin. if field of genetics connection nazis wasn t enough, mendelian genetics particularly enraged stalin due founder gregor mendel s being catholic christian priest, fact flew in face of soviet union s official atheism , antitheism.


in 1950, soviet government organized joint scientific session of ussr academy of sciences , ussr academy of medical sciences, pavlovian session . several prominent soviet physiologists (l.a. orbeli, p.k. anokhin, a.d. speransky, i.s. beritashvily) attacked deviating pavlov s teaching. consequence of pavlovian session, soviet physiologists forced accept dogmatic ideology; quality of physiological research deteriorated , soviet physiology excluded international scientific community. later soviet biologists heavily criticised lysenko s theories , pseudo-scientific methods.








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