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==Rise to Power==
==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]].
A man of peasant origins, Lysenko worked as an 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.
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==
==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]]ists 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.
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]]ists 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==
==Fall from Power==