Volume 14, Number 1 & 2 · January 29, 1970
Cracked Wheat
By David Joravsky
The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko
by Zhores A. Medvedev, translated by I. Michael Lerner, with the editorial assistance of Lucy G. Lawrence
Columbia University Press, 284 pp., $10.00
To condemn the practices of nations whose historical experience is very different from our own is to imply that we in their place would do better: a pointless exercise, for we are not in their place, and a repulsive one, as self-congratulation usually is. But it is hard to talk about Russia without becoming abusive. And the Lysenko affair seems a particularly egregious example of the damage done in the Soviet Union by irresponsible crackpots and tyrants.
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