Stalinist Genetics

Stanchevici, Dmitri

doi:10.4324/9781315231235

2017

DOI: 10.4324/9781315231235

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Stalinist Genetics

Dmitri Stanchevici¹

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Dialectical Materialism Serves Voluntarist Productivism: The Epistemic Foundation of Lysenkoism in Socialist China and North Vietnam

2021

J Hist Biol

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This essay asks why Chinese and North Vietnamese agricultural scientists in the 1950s and 1960s willingly adopted the Soviet agricultural sciences represented not only by agronomists Ivan Michurin and Trofim Lysenko but soil scientist Vasili Williams. The answer, I argue, is that they were fascinated by the promise of Soviet agrobiology that I conceptualize as a combination of dialectical materialism and voluntarist productivism: if one masters the interconnectivity between plants, microbes, organic and inorganic materials, and soil, one can overcome the given biological and environmental limits, manipulate and optimize the material flow, and ceaselessly maximize agricultural production. Engaging the historiographical debate about Lysenkoism-which has mostly paid attention to the Euro-American cases (the Soviet, Eastern European and even "capitalist" Western), genetic controversies, and geopolitical specificities of each locale-as a global phenomenon, I shed fresh light on the understudied Chinese and North Vietnamese cases, the intersection between Lysenko's theories and Williamsian soil science, and epistemic commonality across national differences.

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Dialectical Materialism Serves Voluntarist Productivism: The Epistemic Foundation of Lysenkoism in Socialist China and North Vietnam

2021

J Hist Biol

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Velikaya sila (1950) y lysenkoismo en biología animal

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2024

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Muy conocido en botánica, el lysenkoísmo también actuó en biología animal. Esta faceta menos manifiesta fue exhibida ante millones de espectadores en la Unión Soviética y otros países del bloque del Este a través de la película Velikaya sila, 1950, de Friedrich Ermler. La sociohistoria cinematográfica de Marc Ferro permite analizar la película como transmisora de las preocupaciones y autolegitimaciones del régimen, así como de las ideas de charlatanería sobre la ciencia creadas por Lysenko. Al comienzo de la Guerra Fría, un tema aparentemente insípido como la biología animal se convirtió en el centro de la lucha cultural entre los imperios colonialistas occidentales y el imperio soviético.

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Stalinist Genetics

Cited by 2 publications

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Dialectical Materialism Serves Voluntarist Productivism: The Epistemic Foundation of Lysenkoism in Socialist China and North Vietnam

Dialectical Materialism Serves Voluntarist Productivism: The Epistemic Foundation of Lysenkoism in Socialist China and North Vietnam

Velikaya sila (1950) y lysenkoismo en biología animal

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