This volume covers the global history of the Lysenko controversy while exploring in greater
depth the background of D. Lysenko's career and influence in the USSR. By presenting the rise
and fall of T.D. Lysenko in a variety of aspects-his influence upon art unrecognized
predecessors and the extent to which genetics continued in the USSR even while he was in power
and the revival of his reputation today-the authors provide a fresh perspective on one of the
most notorious episodes in the history of science.
