Joseph Stalin opposed classical genetics in favor of Lysenkoism for ideological reasons.
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Historical evidence clearly demonstrates that Joseph Stalin and the Soviet leadership backed Trofim Lysenko's pseudoscientific agricultural doctrines over classical Mendelian genetics primarily for ideological and political reasons.
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Lysenkoism Against Genetics: The Meeting of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences of August 1948, Its Background, Causes, and Aftermath
2019 · cited by 40
The article documents how Joseph Stalin personally directed the 1948 Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences session that committed the USSR to Lysenkoism and fully defeated classical genetics for ideological and political reasons.
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The pushback against state interference in science: how Lysenkoism tried to suppress Genetics and how it was eventually defeated.
2021 · cited by 1
The paper explains that the Soviet government, distrustful of intellectually independent science, provided state support for Lysenkoism over classical genetics.