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Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (view source)
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'''Trofim Denisovich Lysenko''' was a soviet scientist and founder of [[Lysenkoism]]
'''Trofim Denisovich Lysenko''' was a Soviet scientist, [[evolutionist]] and founder of [[Lysenkoism]]
[[Image:Lysenko.jpg|right|thumbnail|150px|Trofim Denisovich Lysenko]]
==Rise to Power==
A man of peasant origins, Lysenko worked as a agronomist in the [[Soviet Union]] in the 1920s. Doing this work, he modified the evolution and genetics of [[Lamarck]] and [[Ivan Michurin]] to develop a system of genetics later known as [[Lysenkoism]]
Due to his unswerving support for the [[Communist Party]], at a time when bourgeois 'experts' were under attack, and the promises he made of improvements to agriculture, Lysenko became a Soviet hero. He soon headed his own scientific journal, laboratories, and gained positions of prominence within the Soviet scientific bureaucracy.
==Attack on Biology==
Lysenko connected his evolution theory to [[Marxism|Marxist-Leninist]] theory and began attacking all those who disagreed with him, using state institutions against them. With growing support from [[Stalin]] (who would come to support Lysenkoism directly), Lysenko had many of his opponents, called [[Mendel|Mendelists]] removed from their jobs, and even imprisoned during Stalin's purges of 1937-8, by connecting them to matters of treason. Lysenko was established as a de-facto dictator of Biology in 1948, as the Soviet Union entrenched Lysenkoism as state-sponsored doctrine.
==Fall from Power==
Lysenko's fortunes waned following Stalin's death in 1953, as [[Nikita Khrushchev]] was less willing to provide him with unlimited power. By the 1950s, Lysenkoism was being thoroughly disproven by western [[genetics]] (not by Darwinian evolution as its supporters like to claim), throwing his authority into question. He was removed from office and left to conduct small-scale research on a state farm.
[[Category:Scientists]]
[[Category:Scientists]]
[[category:Russian People]]
[[category:Russian People]]
[[category:Evolution]]
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