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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 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.

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.